The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 498 - Jul 18 2020

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1948 film by Hitchcock starring James Stewart ROPE
Actor who starred in Green Acres in the Sixties EVAGABOR
Age of __, leading franchise in real time strategy games EMPIRES
Asterix's best friend? OBELIX
Asterix's pet DOGMATIX
City on the Nile - or at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers CAIRO
Country, capital Kiev UKRAINE
County bordered by Hertfordshire and Suffolk ESSEX
Epic poem also known as the Song of Ilion ILIAD
Former country occupying much of 22 USSR
Former units of currency in Portugal ESCUDOS
German city where Stalin, Churchill and Truman met in 1945 POTSDAM
Karl Hans __ and Theo __, founders of Aldi ALBRECHT
Landmass stretching from Portugal to Chukotka EURASIA
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Marine species also known as clam worms RAGWORM
Meryl __, star of Mamma Mia! STREEP
Minnie-the-__, cartoon character in The Beano MINX
Name for the ruling party in Cambodia 1975-1979 KHMER
Prison camp system in 21 GULAG
Raheem __, English footballer STIRLING
Renaissance artist otherwise known as Doménikos Theotokópoulos ELGRECO
See 24 ROUGE
The brightest star in the constellation of Aquila ALTAIR
The __, 1959 novel by Günter Grass TINDRUM
What Parminder Nagra did to it like Beckham? BEND
__ Black, presenter of Blind Date CILLA
__ Coldfield, parliamentary constituency in Birmingham SUTTON
__ House, Dickens novel BLEAK