The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 185 - May 7 2012

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'Ride a White --', a T. Rex single SWAN
-- Maria Rilke, Austrian poet RAINER
-- Washington, US actor DENZEL
Aleksandr --, Russian composer BORODIN
Arthur --, French composer, one of Les Six HONEGGER
Bronze Age timber circle discovered off the coast of Norfolk SEAHENGE
Card game GINRUMMY
Children's novel by Roald Dahl FANTASTICMRFOX
Composer of 'The Planets' HOLST
Country on the Adriatic coast of the Mediterranean Sea MONTENEGRO
Former Crown Colony leased by China to Britain in 1842 HONGKONG
In linguistics, a word or other essential unit of vocabulary in its most abstract sense LEXEME
Island in the Indian Ocean, a part of the Republic of Yemen SOCOTRA
Large Australian crane that has an elaborate courtship display BROLGA
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Lillian --, US actress who appeared in a number of D.W. Griffith films GISH
Napoleon Bonaparte's first place of exile ELBA
Norman --, author of 'The Naked and the Dead' MAILER
Object resembling a cross, used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of life ANKH
System of Hindu philosophy YOGA
The --, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal AZORES
The home of Jesus in his youth NAZARETH
The wood anemone WINDFLOWER
Thomas Alva --, inventor EDISON
Top model of the late 1960s who starred in the film 'The Boy Friend' TWIGGY
US actress, the 'It' girl of the Roaring Twenties CLARABOW
US TV sitcom starring Charlie Sheen (3,3,1,4,3) TWOANDAHALFMEN
Variety of pear that does not ripen until winter Nelis
Young gannet, eaten as a delicacy in the Hebrides GUGA