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SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390.2 Greek philosopher and
physician regarded as the
father of medicine (11)
3 A roadside hotel for
motorists (5)
4 A construction with a gable
roof and a window at its
outer end that projects
from a sloping roof (6)
5 The period in someone’s
life after they have stopped
working because of having
reached a particular age (10)
6 The capital and chief port
of Sri Lanka (7)
7 Printed or written notices for
public display; posters (8)
8 Mammal such as an anteater,
sloth or armadillo (8)
9 A nocturnal bird with a cryptic
plumage and large eyes (8)
14 The capital of North
Macedonia, on the Vardar
River (6)
15 Groups of two people,
animals or things (5)
19 _ Tower, Parisian monument
erected for the 1889 Paris
Exposition (6)
20 Members of a maritime
force which aids shipping,
saves lives at sea, prevents
smuggling, etc (11)
21 Small brown European
songbird with white
underparts, nesting in
tunnels bored in river
banks, etc (4,6)
22 Provided with repeatedly
or persistently (5)
24 A port in eastern Australia;
the capital of Queensland (8)
25 One of the personal
followers of Christ during
his life, especially one of the
12 Apostles (8)
26 Erich _, head of state of
East Germany 1976-89 (8)
28 The Roman goddess
of wisdom (7)
30 The patron saint of
Scotland (6)
33 An effect produced in
singing by an abrupt change
of register from the chest
voice to falsetto, especially
in Swiss folk songs (5)1 The 11th month of the French
revolutionary calendar; the
month of heat (9)
6 Fruit stewed with sugar or in
a syrup, served hot or cold (7)
10 A person who deceives
others by assuming a false
identity (8)
11 The quality of being able to
accept the beliefs, actions
and opinions of others (9)
12 17th-century Dutch painter
and etcher (9)
13 Small parasites living on
the skin of warm-blooded
animals (5)
15 _ Leith, a judge on TV’s The
Great British Bake Off (4)
16 _ Zedong, founder of the
People’s Republic of China (3)
17 A name for the Asian part
of Turkey (8)(^18) Any of a genus of grasses
cultivated as pasture and
for lawns (6)
21 Simple card game (4)
23 A former princely state of
the British Raj, passed to
Pakistan in 1947 (4)
25 Symbols used in
combination with dots in
the written representation
of Morse code (6)
27 A device attached to
a hairdryer (8)
28 A member of a group of
teenagers in the mid-1960s
who opposed the rockers (3)
29 An alcoholic drink made
from fermented honey (4)
31 The chief port and most
populous city of Nigeria (5)
32 The Roman name for
Scotland (9)
34 Emmeline _, political activist
and leader of the British
suffragette movement (9)
35 Nickname of Manfred von
Richthofen, German First
World War fighter pilot (3,5)
36 The region outside the
suburbs of a city, consisting
of residential areas occupied
by rich commuters (7)
37 The upright at the top or
bottom of a flight of stairs,
supporting a handrail (5,4)