The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 1,603 - Aug 20 2023

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Clues Answers
'-- Killer', 1977 song by Talking Heads PSYCHO
'The -- World', 1989 Kate Bush album SENSUAL
-- Arquette, star alongside Madonna of the film 'Desperately Seeking Susan' ROSANNA
Apprehension by a member of the public CITIZENSARREST
Awkward or delicate matter HOTPOTATO
Brandy made from cherries KIRSCH
Capital of Jamaica KINGSTON
Cause something to turn in a circle ROTATE
Cease to maintain a fixed relationship between currencies UNPEG
Contest between mounted knights JOUST
Finnick --, former winner of the Hunger Games in a series of novels by Suzanne Collins ODAIR
Large, often destructive, wave TSUNAMI
Military shelter made of corrugated metal sheets NISSENHUT
Mouth-like opening ORIFICE
Music-streaming service TIDAL
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Naturally occurring sodium nitrate CHILESALTPETRE
Oblique-angled parallelogram RHOMBUS
Old --, pig in George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' MAJOR
Place of comfort and plenty, named after a region in ancient Egypt GOSHEN
Prophetess and judge of Israel who fought the Canaanites DEBORAH
Quentin --, author of 'The Naked Civil Servant' CRISP
Ramp overhanging a slope in snowy conditions SKIJUMP
Single-edged sword with a convex curved blade SCIMITAR
Spread on something so as to choke it OVERGREW
Stephen --, 1930-2021, US composer and lyricist SONDHEIM
Type of flag used at the end of a race CHEQUERED
Village at the foot of the Matterhorn, not accessible by car ZERMATT
West Germanic language closely related to Anglo-Frisian languages OLDSAXON
Woman leaving a will TESTATRIX
Youngest of King Lear's three daughters CORDELIA