The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 450 - Aug 17 2019

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A fictional account based on real events or characters ROMAN
Anita __, author of Hotel du Lac BROOKNER
Ben __, author whose works include The Famished Road OKRI
Blank sheet at the front of back of a book FLYLEAF
Éamon __, Irish Taoiseach several times between 1937 and 1959 DEVALERA
Elusive area of female sexual gratification? GSPOT
Fanny Fern's 15/19 from 1854 RUTH
Lord __ Douglas, on whom Robert Hitchen based his scandalous 15/19, The Green Carnation ALFRED
Mountain goat native to Europe and North Africa IBEX
Nickname of Gaius Caesar, Roman emperor, 37-41 AD CALIGULA
Orwell's allegory of Stalinism from 1945 ANIMAL
Rabindranath __, Bengali polymath and poet TAGORE
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See 15 Across ACLEF
See 16 FARM
See 24 HALL
Stringed instrument with a deep rounded sounding cavity LUTE
Swiss children's book by Johanna Spyri HEIDI
Texas town where Tony Christie, Peter Kay (and many others) went to find Marie? AMARILLO
The colour of Harold Wilson's resignation honours list in 1976? LAVENDER
The front on which all was quiet in Erich Maria Remarque's 15/19? WESTERN
The largest city in Ivory Coast ABIDJAN
The __, Sylvia Plath's 15/19 from 1963 BELLJAR
Where Hunter S Thompson set his 15/19 of fear and loathing? LASVEGAS
Where Thomas Mann found love and death in his 15/19 from 1912? VENICE