The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 153 - Sep 26 2011

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-- Christian, ringleader of the mutiny on the 'Bounty' (1789) FLETCHER
2008 comedy crime film INBRUGES
An evil spirit in Arabian mythology AFRIT
An Italian sparkling wine ASTI
Author of the book 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' SIMONWINCHESTER
Bird, typically having a brown back, spotted breast, and loud song THRUSH
Bookplate bearing the owner's name EXLIBRIS
Capital of Mongolia ULANBATOR
Chief coalmining and industrial region of Germany RUHR
Chief river of central England TRENT
City in the Indian state of Karnataka MYSORE
Comedy actor best remembered for his performances in 19 'Carry On . . .' films SIDJAMES
Continent around the South Pole ANTARCTICA
Crystalline insoluble substance used as a rodenticide WARFARIN
Frank --, artist awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1986 AUERBACH
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Inquisitive, gossiping person; pseudonym of Patrick Campbell at the 'Irish Times' QUIDNUNC
Landlocked country in West Africa MALI
Loose hooded woollen cloak of a kind traditionally worn by Arabs DJELLABA
Original site in Egypt of two temples of Rameses II ABUSIMBEL
Port and commercial city in central Japan, on the island of Honshu OSAKA
Red wine from Bordeaux CLARET
Singapore-born British violinist VANESSAMAE
Stuart --, a mouse in many of E.B. White's short stories LITTLE
Tex --, one of the best known singing cowboys in western films RITTER
The central of the three small bones in the middle ear of mammals INCUS
The first English king to adopt Christianity ETHELBERT
The hero of the first part of the German poem 'Nibelungenlied' SIEGFRIED
Tree-dwelling Australasian marsupial POSSUM
Woodwind instrument OBOE