The Guardian - Speedy crossword No 1,240 - Jul 7 2019

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Clues Answers
Brazilian football legend PELE
Check; arrest REININ
Comedy 18 by George Bernard Shaw ARMSANDTHEMAN
Daughter of Zeus, goddess of youth HEBE
Embodiment; personification AVATAR
Examples of book-length fictional prose NOVELS
French impressionist painter (1841-1919) RENOIR
Group of islands off SW England SCILLIES
History 18 by Shakespeare HENRYTHEFIFTH
I, another? (anag) ANTIHERO
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Insect in the inactive stage of development PUPA
Latitude; compete against PLAY
Mischievous; naughtily playful IMPISH
Of a bone, towards a point furthest away from its attachment to the body DISTAL
One of the 2 by DH Lawrence SONSANDLOVERS
One of the 2 by George Eliot DANIELDERONDA
Ornamental poisonous shrub with evergreen leaves and white to red flowers OLEANDER
Russian neurophysiologist who involved canines PAVLOV
Second most holy city of Islam MEDINA
Vole: member of a UK showbusiness charity organisation WATERRAT