The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 647 - Mar 15 2021

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'-- Doings', book of animals dressed and behaving like people (illustrated by Harry B. Neilson) DROLL
-- Aitchison, Scottish painter (1926-2009) CRAIGIE
-- House, Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire, home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton KNEBWORTH
-- School, Boreham, Essex (on the site of Henry VIII's Palace of Beaulieu) NEWHALL
1947 film directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason ODDMANOUT
1970 war film starring Michael Caine and Cliff Robertson TOOLATETHEHERO
1980 film directed by Robert Redford ORDINARYPEOPLE
Actor who played Scaramanga in the James Bond film 'The Man with the Golden Gun' CHRISTOPHERLEE
African country, on the Red Sea ERITREA
Arthur --, character in 'The Fast Show' played by Paul Whitehouse ATKINSON
Comb traditionally worn by Sikhs as a symbol of their religious and cultural loyalty KANGHA
County town of Offaly in the Republic of Ireland TULLAMORE
Eamon --, President of the Republic of Ireland from 1959 to 1973 DEVALERA
Former name for Dalmatian COACHDOG
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Francis --, molecular biologist who helped to discover the helical structure of DNA CRICK
Hugh --, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to 1963 GAITSKELL
In Greek mythology, Amphitryon's wife who gave birth to Hercules after being seduced by Zeus ALCMENE
Informal name for New York GOTHAM
Large stretch of water in the Scottish Highlands LOCHNESS
Largest of the Ryukyu Islands OKINAWA
Major French river RHONE
Maria --, Helen Mirren's role in the 2015 biographical drama film 'Woman in Gold' ALTMANN
May --, heroine of a series of novels by Elizabeth Jordan IVERSON
Novel by Ivan Turgenev SPRINGTORRENTS
Plant of a genus that includes love-in-a-mist NIGELLA
Prune butter used as a pastry filling LEKVAR
Small genus of evergreen shrubs native to eastern Australia BAUERA
Variety of silica that contains microcrystalline quartz CHERT