The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 251 - Aug 12 2013

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& 18 Across Former medicine or cordial containing a small quantity of gold AURUM
-- Brahms, German composer (1833-97) JOHANNES
-- Caesar, US actor who played Sergeant Waters in 'A Soldier's Story' ADOLPH
-- Whitman, US country music singer SLIM
1966 film based on a novel by Margaret Forster GEORGYGIRL
1971 film starring Walter Matthau and Elaine May ANEWLEAF
1986 film written and directed by Blake Edwards AFINEMESS
2003 studio album by Marti Webb LIMELIGHT
A polished imitation marble consisting of ground gypsum bound with glue SCAGLIOLA
A servant of Lucentio in 'The Taming of the Shrew' BIONDELLO
Ancient city in Pakistan RAWALPINDI
Barack --, the 44th US president OBAMA
Bird related to the nightjar POTOO
City in western Saudi Arabia, to the east of Mecca TAIF
Dancer who founded the Royal Ballet NINETTEDEVALOIS
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English county DORSET
Hans --, German physicist (1882-1945 GEIGER
In classical mythology, a bloodsucking serpent-witch LAMIA
In Greek mythology, a monster and one of the whirlwinds TYPHON
John Wall --, English composer (1766-1821) CALLCOTT
King of England, the son of King Edgar ETHELRED
Name for various switch-plants, including Spanish broom RETAMA
One of the Great Lakes MICHIGAN
Poem by Gilbert Parker, set to music by Edward Elgar TWILIGHT
Second largest river in Spain EBRO
see 24 Down POTABILE
The fruit of forest trees used as food for pigs MAST
The heroine of Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline' IMOGEN
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