The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 1,552 - Aug 28 2022

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'-- Get Your Gun', 1946 Broadway musical ANNIE
'-- Your Wings', 1978 Queen single SPREAD
-- City, Midwestern US state capital OKLAHOMA
Alliance established in 1920 to promote world peace and co-operation LEAGUEOFNATIONS
Brightest star in the constellation Taurus ALDEBARAN
City on a peninsula of the same name in Sri Lanka Jaffna
Closely ranked unit of people PHALANX
Clots obstructing blood vessels EMBOLI
Device used with electronically amplified instruments REVERB
Eponymous character in tragedies by Sophocles and Euripides ELECTRA
Extremely offensive and insulting ABUSIVE
Exultant; shouting for joy JUBILANT
Fortified communications trenches BOYAUX
German composer of 'Kreisleriana' SCHUMANN
Going from bar to bar for drinks PUBCRAWL
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Increase the magnification of an image ZOOMIN
La --, French name for the English Channel MANCHE
Maize whiskey made in Kentucky BOURBON
Old Testament wife of King Ahab JEZEBEL
One who makes connections on a telephone switchboard OPERATOR
Owl that has a shrill cry SCREECH
Relatively shallow part of the Atlantic Ocean CELTICSEA
Rug or small carpet on which to kneel during worship PRAYERMAT
Sir Martin --, c1535-1594, English explorer FROBISHER
Spiral dive of an aeroplane TAILSPIN
Station at one end of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines UXBRIDGE
Sterile water AQUAPURA
Tropical Asian tree that yields a coarse kind of cinnamon CASSIA
Younger twin brother of Esau JACOB