Clues |
Answers |
The nom de guerre of Joseph Dzhugashvili |
STALIN |
Annual meteor shower |
PERSEID |
Ben __, Washington Post editor during Watergate |
BRADLEE |
City in Nevada – or Bill Clinton’s Attorney General? |
RENO |
Former England cricketer and current Test Match Special pundit |
EBONY |
George Bernard Shaw comedy set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War |
ARMSANDTHEMAN |
Gillian __, artist whose statue of Millicent Fawcett stands in Parliament Square, London |
WEARING |
Handwoven Hebridean cloth protected by a 1993 act of parliament |
HARRIS |
La __, Michelangelo sculpture in St Peter’s Basilica |
PIETA |
Name for what is now Thailand |
SIAM |
Natural phenomenon also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya |
VICTORIAFALLS |
Pale yellowish cloth originally from Nanjing, China |
NANKEEN |
Reversible figured fabric, usually of silk or wool |
DAMASK |
Russian city near the border with Belarus |
SMOLENSK |
Russian city near the Urals – or a once popular hairstyle? |
PERM |
Scene of a Canadian gold rush between 1896 and 1899 |
KLONDIKE |
See 10 |
RAINFORD |
See 10 Across |
BRENT |
See 5 Down |
TWEED |
The Iranian currency |
RIAL |
Thomas __, Victorian fashion designer whose brand still bears his name |
BURBERRY |
__-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party |
WAFFEN |
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