The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 1,625 - Jan 21 2024

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-- O'Brien, Irish novelist, short-story writer and playwright EDNA
1959 animated fantasy film SLEEPINGBEAUTY
Areas planted with conifers PINETA
Characterised by extreme activity and excitement HECTIC
Collection of sculptures in X'ian, China TERRACOTTAARMY
Covered portico in ancient Greece used for athletics XYST
Damien --, English painter and installation artist HIRST
Devotional painting of a holy figure ICON
Early roughly broken stone implement EOLITH
First stomach of a cud-chewing animal RUMEN
Form of Vishnu in later Hinduism KRISHNA
High plateau in south-west Brazil MATOGROSSO
Low-lying state in the eastern US NEWJERSEY
Meat cooked on a vertical spit DONERKEBAB
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Microscopic one-celled protozoan AMOEBA
Modern means of communication EMAIL
Nick --, 'Countdown' presenter from 2012 to 2021 HEWER
Nickname or pseudonym for the Devil OLDSCRATCH
One who plots or makes plans SCHEMER
Ordered someone to do something INSTRUCTED
Ornamental interlaced looped bow TRUELOVERSKNOT
Person who is frantically or excessively enthusiastic FANATIC
Person with limited membership of an organisation ASSOCIATE
Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete RAAC
Score for turning up the jack in cribbage TWOFORHISHEELS
Site of a sports venue in SW19 WIMBLEDON
Town north-east of Uxbridge RUISLIP
Urgent telegraph message CABLEGRAM