The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 278 - Feb 17 2014

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'The --', a 1904 ragtime composition by Scott Joplin SYCAMORE
-- Contemptibles, the British expeditionary force to France in 1914 OLD
-- tail, a freehold interest in land restricted to a particular line of heirs FEE
1938 film starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy TOOHOTTOHANDLE
1959 Johnny Mathis album HEAVENLY
1979 Barbra Streisand album WET
1989 film starring Eric Roberts, and featuring Julia Roberts BLOODRED
1997 film starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt (2,4,2,2,4) ASGOODASITGETS
2008 play by Howard Brenton NEVERSOGOOD
A cactus of a genus that comprises the prickly pears OPUNTIA
A Sidney Bechet instrumental, a hit for Chris Barber's Jazz Band in 1959 PETITEFLEUR
A Spanish river, an Iranian ski resort, and a Portuguese language ALVARES
Card game CRIBBAGE
Crossbred hunting dog LURCHER
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Equatorial republic in South America ECUADOR
John --, English novelist, author of 'The Magus' FOWLES
Notorious London prison, demolished in 1902 NEWGATE
Novel by Henry James THEAMERICAN
One of the major Amazon ports, in Colombia, on the border with Brazil and Peru LETICIA
Plant growing chiefly on sea cliffs and mountains THRIFT
Popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1938 film 'Carefree' CHANGEPARTNERS
Powerful insecticide LINDANE
Ralph --, theatrical producer best known for staging the original 'Gang Show' READER
Spy novel by Len Deighton THEIPCRESSFILE
Star of the 1939 film 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips' ROBERTDONAT
Sutton --, an archaeological site in Suffolk HOO
The fastest animal on land CHEETAH
The Muse of astronomy URANIA