The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 1,497 - Aug 8 2021

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-- the Evangelist, one of the seven deacons appointed by the early church PHILIP
1904 novel by Henry James THEGOLDENBOWL
American farm hut RANCHO
Ancient Egyptian city near apex of Nile Delta HELIOPOLIS
Ancient Greek weight or silver coin DRACHM
Another name for Lod, town in central Israel LYDDA
Beethoven introduced voices to sing this part of Schiller's work ODETOJOY
Bishop of Lindisfarne whose feast day is March 20 CUTHBERT
Born Charles Olden, 1905-77, comedian on radio and television TEDRAY
Box with passages of Scripture on a Jewish man's head PHYLACTERY
Causing harm to someone's feelings or reputation WOUNDING
Coarse-grained rock usually composed of quartz, felspar or mica GNEISS
Fylde village north-west of Preston INSKIP
Grozny is the capital of this autonomous Russian republic CHECHNYA
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Highly unstable radioactive element ASTATINE
Lively dance to swing music LINDYHOP
Of a tropical disease of the skin YAWY
Phillis --, c1753-1784, US poet born in Africa, possibly Senegal WHEATLEY
Poem by Longfellow about the exiles of Acadia EVANGELINE
Raccoon-like animal KINKAJOU
Roald --, 1872-1928, Norwegian explorer AMUNDSEN
Second son of Jacob and Leah (OT) SIMEON
Slang derogatory word for an environmentalist ECONUT
Something that restricts or holds back CURB
Sooner State, a south central US state OKLAHOMA
Sudden revolutionary outbreak PUTSCH
Teacher of Jewish law in Old Testament SCRIBE
The Netherlands in French LESPAYSBAS