The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 687 - Mar 9 2024

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A 1944 play by Sartre - or a leading publisher of crime fiction? NOEXIT
Author known for her biographies of Austen, Dickens and others CLAIRETOMALIN
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 BETH
Colloquial term for the security police in the former German Democratic Republic STASI
Country bordering Eritrea and Somalia ETHIOPIA
Former unit of measurement, roughly the length of the human arm ELL
Heron with white plumage EGRET
In Dungeons & Dragons, a character who has martial arts and spellcasting skills GISH
Kind of precipitation caused by excess sulphur dioxide or nitrogen oxide in the air ACIDRAIN
KwaZulu-__, South African province NATAL
Mathematician and colleague of Charles Babbage ADA
Mythical river of forgetfulness? LETHE
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Nevada city, known for its casinos LASVEGAS
Olympe __, author of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791) DEGOUGES
See 2 MEAD
See 6 WOMENS
See 7 LOVELACE
The daughter of Oedipus - and subject of a play by Sophocles ANTIGONE
The Welsh name for Anglesey YnysMon
The __ Patient, 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje ENGLISH
Welsh town - and book festival HAY
__ Day, annual celebration on 8 March INTERNATIONAL
__ Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) MARY