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History 1 (Cryptic)
Phil Platt

Cryptic version of my History (Straight) No 1 - the answers are the same


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  •  7  Males sort of led the genetecist (6)

  •  8  Former inhabitants of Clivedon (6)

  •  9  Goddess and flower of Oxford (4)

  • 10 Humble resting place of a Plantagenet king (7)

  • 11 Firing cannons, you'd be doing this (7)

  • 13 Texas became one of these just after Christmas 1845 (5)

  • 15 Scottish coronation stone that we hear would be nice with cream and strawberry jam (5)

  • 17 Wartime bomber and Viscount (7)

  • 20 Wedgwood's home in ancient Italy? (7)

  • 21 First name of the lady who wouldn't get off the bus (4)

  • 23 Kublai Khan's stately holiday home? (6)

  • 24 Very chilly heart of a Police Agent (6)

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  •  1  She's a Nazi! (4)

  •  2  Did he have a lightbulb moment? (6)

  •  3  Daughter of Agamemnon, and a complex counterpart of Oedipus (7)

  •  4  Henry V in the familiar - like Shakespeare's rallying speech (5)

  •  5  Royal house which contained both a Merry Monarch and one who lost his head (6)

  •  6  Blew its top in 1883 (8)

  • 12 America's John Bull? (5,3)

  • 14 Spaceman makes the Khan smile (7)

  • 16 One of William's men from a Northern Manor (6)

  • 18 Serial killer state? (6)

  • 19 This Eva wasn't Peron, but a dictator's lady nevertheless (5)

  • 22 A Viking's story about silver in South America (4)

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