The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 201 - Aug 27 2012

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'Murders in the Rue Morgue', a film starring Bela -- as Dr Mirakle LUGOSI
-- Brezhnev, Soviet statesman (1906-82) LEONID
-- Stardust, pop singer previously known as Shane Fenton ALVIN
1988 film starring Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix LITTLENIKITA
A thrips or aphid that infests beans, etc. BLACKFLY
A vegetable oil used in Indian cookery VANASPATI
A very dry pale sherry MANZANILLA
An extensive anchorage between the mainland of England and the Isle of Wight, off Portsmouth SPITHEAD
At Cambridge University, a student who graduates with second or third class honours in mathematics OPTIME
Brilliantly-coloured Asiatic pheasant Tragopan
English cricketer knighted in 2007 IANBOTHAM
Gambling system in which the stakes are doubled after each loss MARTINGALE
Hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion TIGON
In County Cork, a port of call for Atlantic liners COBH
In falconry, a short strap round the leg of a hawk JESS
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In Shetland, meat hung and dried without salt VIVDA
John --, author of 'Fanny Hill' CLELAND
Mexican dish of strips of spiced meat, vegetables etc. wrapped in a soft tortilla FAJITAS
Mountain in the Alps between Lakes Lucerne, Zug, and Lauerz Rigi
New Zealand soprano, made a DBE in 1982 KIRITEKANAWA
Novel by Ivan Goncharov (1859) OBLOMOV
Ornamental yellowish-orange freshwater fish, kept in aquariums and ponds GOLDENORFE
Paul --, English theoretical physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933 DIRAC
Plant cultivated for forage and for its medicinal seeds FENUGREEK
Silvery metallic element YTTRIUM
Sir Anthony --, English sculptor CARO
Sir Martin --, sailor mortally wounded at the siege of Crozon, near Brest (1594) FROBISHER
Small rattlesnake MASSASAUGA
Suburb of Belfast STORMONT
The standard monetary unit of Ukraine Hryvna