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ACROSS
1 Son of Uther Pendragon (6) 5 Portuguese city, known for the religious visions of three local children in 1917 (6) 10 Tragic king of Thebes, in Greek myth (7) 11 Lise ___ (1878–1968), Viennaborn nuclear physicist (7) 12 Greek mathematician known as ‘the father of geometry’ (6) 15 Texas city on the US-Mexico border, founded in 1755 (6) 16 George ___ (1854–1932), US photography pioneer (7) 17/18 Nickname for the city of Los Angeles (2-2,4) 19 Greek goddess of agriculture and the harvest (7) 20 George Bernard ___ (1856– 1950), Irish playwright (4) 22 Goddess of ancient Egypt (4) 25 Monstrous son of Sycorax in The Tempest (7) 27 Ancient Semitic language (6) 28 Pablo ___ (1904–73), Chilean poet and politician (6) 31 One of the four great ancient capitals of China (7) 32 Football club founded by Woolwich munitions workers in 1886 (7) 33 Ethnic Hungarian (6) 34 Michael ___ (b1942), Palme d’Or-winning Austrian filmmaker (6)
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2 Liberal reformist of the late 18th century (7) 3 Member of the 1960s counterculture (6) 4 Mary ___, warship sunk in 1545 (4) 5 1980 film musical (4) 6 Island of east Asia formerly known as Formosa (6)
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FOR T HR WINN EE ERS
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HOW TO ENTER
Post entries to BBC History Revealed, July 2022 Crossword, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA or email them to july2022@ historyrevealedcomps.co.uk by noon on 1 August 2022.
Set by Richard Smyth
7 Nelson ___ (1918–2013), South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and statesman (7) 8 Enoch ___ (1912–98), classicist and Conservative MP (6) 9 Famed golfer Palmer, novelist Bennett or composer Schoenberg, perhaps (6) 13 British region ruled by the Danes in the 9th and 10th centuries (7) 14 Christian martyr, supposedly a third-century Bishop of Paris (2,5) 15 ___ Treaty, agreement of 1929 between Italy and the Holy See (7) 20 Mythical creature with a human head and the body of a lion (6)
21 Country ruled by Enver Hoxha from 1941 to 1985 (7) 23 Satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 (7) 24 Ronald ___ (1920–2011), British cartoonist and illustrator (6) 25 ___ of York (1469–1507), daughter of Edward IV (6) 26 Horatio ___ (1758–1805), English naval hero (6) 29 Stock character in 20th-century Gothic horror (4) 30 1970 Korean War satire directed by Robert Altman (4)
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