The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 579 - Feb 12 2022

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1996 golf comedy starring Rene Russo and Kevin Costner TIN
A type of bird - or a problem to which Gordius found a solution KNOT
Architect who designed the layout for Covent Garden in the 1630s INIGOJONES
City and oblast in western Siberia OMSK
Comic opera (1782) by William Shield ROSINA
Connie __, star and co-writer of Fawlty Towers BOOTH
Cyndi Lauper's once controversial song about female sexual experience, released 1984 SHEBOP
Emirate home to Al Jazeera QATAR
Ginger __, dancer who did everything 'backwards and in high heels' ROGERS
Isy __, comedian whose Love Letters appeared on Radio 4 SUTTIE
Italian city, home to La Scala MILAN
Moscow theatre BOLSHOI
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Motown! DETROIT
Opera house in Paris's 9th arrondissement PALAIS
Pseudonym, 'like the city', chosen by John le Carré's Perfect Spy? CANTERBURY
See 13 CUP
See 4 Down TRAVIATA
See 6 Across GARNIER
Soviet diplomat known for his 'cocktails' MOLOTOV
The modern name for ancient Thebes LUXOR
The wife of Orpheus whose story is a popular subject in 6/1, 8 and 15 EURYDICE
Verdi opera based on the play by Alexandre Dumas LA
__ Lindsay Anderson film (1968) starring Malcolm McDowell IF
__ Theatre, opera house in Manaus, Brazil AMAZON