The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 40 - Jul 27 2009

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-- Kamprad, founder of IKEA INGVAR
2003 film starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters CALENDARGIRLS
A constituent of some forms of steel AUSTENITE
A hypothetical elementary particle AXION
A novel by George Eliot ROMOLA
Alfredo --, Italian composer (1854-93) CATALANI
American saxophonist, known as Bird CHARLIEPARKER
Author of 'The Canterbury Tales' CHAUCER
Baron John --, Director-General of the BBC (1992-2000) BIRT
Country in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea IVORYCOAST
English dramatist and poet CONGREVE
Espresso coffee with frothed hot milk LATTE
Eurasian plant related to the yarrow SNEEZEWORT
Forage plant having elongated clusters of violet-purple flowers COWVETCH
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French symbolist poet VERLAINE
Group of notes sung to one syllable of text MELISMA
Hard durable timber used in shipbuilding TEAK
Italian fashion designer GIANNIVERSACE
Italian operatic baritone TITOGOBBI
Mario --, Peruvian fashion photographer TESTINO
Mark --, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens TWAIN
Small sandpiper KNOT
The great earth mother of Hindu mythology ADITI
The obligation of fitting out ships TRIERARCHY
Type of anaemia SICKLECELL
Vikram --, Indian novelist and poet SETH
Vladimir --, Russian-born US novelist and short story writer, author of 'Lolita' NABOKOV
Writer and TV dramatist best known for the 'Prime Suspect' crime series LYNDALAPLANTE