The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 1,420 - Feb 16 2020

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'The -- -- --', two-act opera by Rossini BARBEROFSEVILLE
-- Ure, Scottish musician, co-writer of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' MIDGE
1996 Olympic Games venue ATLANTA
About one million bits in computing MEGABIT
An untrustworthy character ABADEGG
Anatomical word meaning like a thorn in appearance SPINOUS
Another name for the kookaburra LAUGHINGJACKASS
Australasian soldier ANZAC
Caernarfon is the administrative centre of this Welsh county GWYNEDD
Capital of Antigua and Barbuda STJOHNS
Capital of Maine AUGUSTA
Chief industrial area in Germany RUHR
County known as the 'Garden of England' KENT
Deadly disease of sheep and cattle ANTHRAX
Disease especially in the smaller bones of the feet GOUT
English economist who propounded a population theory MALTHUS
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Forward base of aircraft in enemy territory AIRHEAD
French Algerian cavalryman SPAHI
French general and statesman, first president of the Fifth Republic CHARLESDEGAULLE
Genus of African aquatic frogs XENOPUS
Henri de -- - --, 1864-1901, French painter TOULOUSELAUTREC
Low-lying boggy ground in South Africa VLEI
Member of an Islamic group of Arabia and North Africa SENUSSI
Publius Cornelius --, about 100AD, Roman historian and author TACITUS
Quiet private space NOOK
Romain --, 1914-80, French novelist and wartime aviator GARY
Scottish word meaning strange or unusual UNCO
Small heron with buff-coloured plumage Squacco
Swollen inflamed area ABSCESS
Tool for opening locked door from outside OUSTITI
Underworld river in Greek mythology LETHE
Village in Buckinghamshire east of Slough IVER