The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 635 - Dec 21 2020

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Clues Answers
'The --', a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson BOTTLEIMP
-- Post, American author famous for writing about etiquette EMILY
2014 Christmas comedy film starring Jim Broadbent GETSANTA
Alfred --, Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite NOBEL
Boy who first appeared in the novel 'The Little White Bird' PETERPAN
Carl --, Danish composer of the opera 'Maskarade' NIELSEN
Character in Offenbach's opera 'Whittington' ALICEFITZWARREN
District and island of Venice, with a famous bridge over the Grand Canal RIALTO
Feudal tax of a lord on tenants TALLAGE
French horns CORNI
Georgia --, American artist awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 OKEEFFE
German fairy tale RAPUNZEL
Highly venomous snake of southern Africa RINGHALS
In heraldry, a two-legged dragon having wings and a barbed tail WYVERN
John --, actor who played Danny Zuko in the 1978 film 'Grease' TRAVOLTA
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John Hanning --, English explorer (1827-64) SPEKE
Kirsten --, Norwegian operatic soprano FLAGSTAD
Kurt --, author of the novel 'Slaughterhouse-Five' VONNEGUT
Leon --, Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist TROTSKY
Marcel --, French automobile manufacturer (1885-1986) LEYAT
Nat --, English jazz trumpeter and bandleader GONELLA
Novella by Charles Dickens, one of his five 'Christmas Books' THEBATTLEOFLIFE
One of Clement Clarke Moore's reindeer DASHER
One of Clement Clarke Moore's reindeer; 'Tiny --', Elton John single DANCER
Paul --, German bacteriologist (1854-1915) EHRLICH
Percy Bysshe --, Romantic poet SHELLEY
Russian daily broadsheet newspaper IZVESTIA
Scottish term for turnips NEEPS
The Spanish name for saffron AZAFRAN
The study of language, its history and development PHILOLOGY