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1 Puerto Rico-born actor who played the title role in the biopic Romero (4,5) 8 Umberto, author of the novels Baudolino and The Name of the Rose (3) 9 Spike Lee film about the Million Man March (3,2,3,3) 11 A … bun is a flat coil-shaped bread made from yeasted dough containing currants and sprinkled with sugar (7) 12 Standard unit of currency of India (5) 13 and 15 Six-times Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee who died in 1969 (6,6) 15 See 13 17 Giant in folklore who, with Gog, survived the destruction of their race by Brutus, the legendary founder of Britain (5) 18 Hugh, English Protestant bishop burnt at the stake in 1555 (7) 20 Verdi opera first produced in Rome in 1859 (1,6,4) 22 and 3 Down 1969 Wimbledon women’s singles tennis champion (3,5) 23 Thor, Norwegian anthropologist who sailed from Peru to the Pacific Islands in the raft Kon-Tiki (9)

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2 Playing card having one spot (3) 3 See 22 Across 4 Tom, 1996 British Open golf champion (6) 5 Leon Battista, 15th Century Italian architect whose works include part of the facade of the Santa Maria Novella in Florence (7) 6 Ancient region of Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (11) 7 US humorist whose songs include The Masochism Tango (3,6) 10 John Flynn film starring Rod Steiger and John Phillip Law (3,8) 11 Sailing vessel with twin hulls held parallel by a rigid framework (9) 14 GD, Australia Test cricketer who took 5-53 against England at