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CROSSWORD & QUIZ

Crossword no 240

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Fishing port and holiday resort on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall (9) The herb valerian, formerly supposed to have many medicinal properties (7) Hampshire home of Jane Austen (7) The great quadrangle of Christ Church, Oxford (3,4) Well-preserved Orkney Neolithic settlement, a World Heritage Site Blue, in heraldry (5) A member of the lowest order of the British nobility (5) Duke of Athens, in Shakespeare’s (7) Saint who founded a monastery on Iona (7) Immature frog (7)

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