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Western-most of the three ancient cities of Tripolitania, part of what is now Libya (8) Ancient Egyptian god, representing both fertility and the afterlife (6) Viral illness known to Hippocrates in the fifth century BC, now prevented by the MMRV vaccine (5) Stronghold of the Spanish Republican cause until it fell to Franco’s forces in 1939 (9) Julius and Ethel ___, US civilians executed in 1953 for passing atomic bomb secrets to the USSR (9) RMS ___, the British mail steamer whose interception by the US in 1861 sparked a diplomatic incident (5) ___ of Canterbury (d1109), whose ‘proof’ of God’s existence, still discussed West Sussex location of the castle founded by Roger de Montgomery in 1067 (7) Ancient city of Crete, the ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilisation (7) First name of the composer of the (1941), performed in that city while under siege by Germany (6) Old English unit of length, divided into 100 links (5) City-state which, under Lee Kuan Yew, became the most prosperous country in south-east Asia (9) Religious movement started in Jamaica in the 1930s, so called after the former name of Haile Selassie I (9) City declared the capital of French Indochina in 1902 (5) German-Czech friar whose 19th-century experiments became the basis of modern genetics (6) British gold coins that continued to be used as units for professionals’ fees after being withdrawn in 1816 (7)
