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1 Medical condition whose forms include deuteranopia, protanopia and tritanopia (6,9)

10 Southernmost and westernmost state capital of the United States (8)

11 Name sometimes given to the wicked fairy godmother in Sleeping Beauty, as in Tchaikovsky’s 1889 ballet (9)

12 One of the three Erinyes, or Furies, in Greek mythology; ‘the jealous one’ (7)

13 Member of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers who married the villainous Milady de Winter (5)

15 Youngest of the four human members of The Famous Five, created by English author Enid Blyton (4)

16 Imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, founded by the Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) (4)

17 Class of cold-blooded vertebrates comprising the orders Anura (frogs), Urodela (salamanders) and Apoda (caecilians) (8)

18 Native Egyptians of non-Arab descent, constituting the country’s largest Christian denomination (5)

20 White crystalline salt deposited as a crust by fermented wine, purified to produce cream of tartar (5)

22 Part of the body described by the adjective pollical (5)

25 Protective household gods of ancient Rome typically worshipped in conjunction with penates (5)

27 Italian name for a southwesterly wind, especially that which predominates in Corsica throughout the year (8)

28 German form of address for men corresponding to the English Mr (4)

30 2022 science fiction horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer (4)

32 Fourth-longest river of Scotland, forming a 17-mile stretch of the border with England (5)

33 Second-largest city of Serbia; capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina (4,3)

35 Of a person’s nose, turned up at the end (9)

36 The use of more words than necessary to convey a meaning; from Greek, ‘excess, redundancy’ (8)

37 Oscar-nominated 2007 psychological drama film starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett (5,2,1,7)

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2 Machine designed to fly by means of flapping wings, such as one sketched by Leonardo da Vinci (11)

3 Flap-like extension of the soft palate whose name is a diminutive of the Latin for ‘grape’ (5)

4 Country of southern Asia known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon (6)

5 Inadequate flow of blood to a part of the body caused by an obstruction of the arteries (9)

6 Heartwood of a tree, surrounded by the alburnum (sapwood) (7)

7 Most populous city of Latin America, in SE Brazil on the Tietê River (3,5)

8 City that replaced Kuala Lumpur as the state capital of Selangor, W Malaysia, in 1978 (4,4)

9 Infectious bacterial disease of the central nervous system also known as lockjaw (7)

14 ’There is a land of pure delight,/Where ___ immortal reign’ (Isaac Watts Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1707) ‘A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy’) (6)

15 French word of farewell; literally, ‘to God’ (5)

18 Computer program or workstation that retrieves and processes data from a central server (6)

19 Second highest position in Tibetan Buddhism, whose 11th and current holder is Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (7,4)

21 Transitional sound in phonetics, often a semivowel, produced in passing from one speech sound to another (5)

23 See 25

24 Equatorial region of calms, light variable winds and thunderstorms; properly, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (8)

25 & 23US composer of works including West Side Story (musical, 1957) and A Quiet Place (opera, 1983) (7,9)

26 Running of the bulls through the streets of a Spanish town, as during the annual San Fermín festival held at Pamplona in July (8)

29 Shedding, as of old skin in reptiles or the exoskeleton in insects and crustaceans (7)

31 Large southern constellation between Vela and Canis Major; the Poop Deck (6)

34 ’[T]he great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning’ in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book stories (5)