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1 Across : US state mentioned in the John Denver song Take Me Home, Country Roads
8 Across : Fine fibrous substance, also known as kapok, used as stuffing for cushions
13 Across : Relating to teaching methods designed to support pupils with learning difficulties
14 Across : Evergreen shrub with spiny leaves and clusters of yellow flowers
15 Across : Fort ___, 1948 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda and John Wayne
16 Across : Metrical foot consisting of one long and one short syllable
17 Across : Hertfordshire town situated about 5 miles north of St Albans
18 Across : The world's longest river
19 Across : French term for passionate appeal or complaint
22 Across : Former monetary unit of Argentina, replaced by the peso in 1991
23 Across : Dutch football team based in Amsterdam
24 Across : Dressing gown usually made of towelling material
26 Across : Flock of wild geese or swans in flight, making V-formation
27 Across : Small East Asian animal which secretes a strong-smelling substance used in perfumery
30 Across : Tailless macaque monkey associated with the Rock of Gibraltar
32 Across : Person who has extreme or irrational fear of cats
34 Across : Description of pressure exerted by a fluid at equilibrium due to force of gravity
36 Across : Order of insects which includes beetles and weevils
37 Across : Surname of the detective played by Helen Mirren in the TV series Prime Suspect
38 Across : ___ Grillo, Italian comedian who co-founded the Italian Five Star Movement
39 Across : A fibrous scleroprotein of connective tissue and bones
40 Across : In music, a character that lowers a note a semitone
42 Across : Uninhabited British island in the North Atlantic, 220 miles west of the Outer Hebrides
44 Across : Former England cricketer who captained Sussex to the 2003, 2006 and 2007 County Championship titles
46 Across : Name of Captain Hook's right-hand man in Peter Pan
47 Across : Former name for the Kingdom of Eswatini
49 Across : A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse's knee
51 Across : Paul ___, Kenyan runner who held the world best time in the marathon from 2003 to 2007
52 Across : Raft used by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 Pacific expedition
53 Across : Legendary continent said to have sunk in the ocean west of the Straits of Gibraltar
54 Across : Surname of the governor of New York credited with introducing tea to the American colonies
55 Across : Dish of minced meat under a layer of mashed potato

All Down Clues and Answers:

2 Down : German prince entitled to be involved in choosing the Holy Roman Emperor
3 Down : Last of a trilogy of western films in the 1960s, following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More
4 Down : 1976 top ten hit by Stevie Wonder, from the Songs in the Key of Life album
5 Down : Migratory diving duck, the male of which is black and white with a green head
6 Down : Immature form of insects such as the dragonfly
7 Down : Collection of 114 hymns or formulations for the treatment of diseases in Hinduism
8 Down : Tessa ___, British javelin thrower who won an Olympic gold medal in 1984
9 Down : Youth who drowned in the Hellespont while swimming to reach his beloved Hero
10 Down : Bruce ___, American singer best known for his 1962 US number one hit, Hey! Baby
11 Down : A hit in May 1965 for both Burt Bacharach and Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
12 Down : Daughter of Polonius and sister of Laertes in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet
20 Down : The ___, title of a 1975 Jospeh Wamburgh novel about the exploits of a group of LA police officers
21 Down : Political party set up in 2004, its most famous member being George Galloway
25 Down : Maiden of Greek mythology, turned into a spider by Athena
27 Down : Surname of the main character in D H Lawrence's Sons And Lovers
28 Down : Greek writer of tragedies which include Antigone and Oedipus The King
29 Down : In ancient Greece and Rome, porticos or arcades with benches where people conversed
31 Down : Small river in Ayrshire immortalised in Robert Burns's poem Sweet ___
33 Down : Charles ___, Monégasque Formula One racing driver who won the 2019 Belgian and Italian Grands Prix
35 Down : Delicate thin-walled blood vessels that form an interconnecting network between the arterioles and the venules
38 Down : South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae that has the same name as its edible seed
39 Down : English goalkeeper whose clubs have included Crystal Palace, Manchester City and Preston North End
41 Down : Unit of luminance named after an 18th century German physicist
42 Down : A flower-shaped arrangement of ribbons worn as a badge or presented as a prize
43 Down : Genus of North American onagraceous plants named after the US explorer who discovered it
45 Down : Blaise ___, French international midfielder who joined Inter Miami from Juventus in 2020
48 Down : 1984 song by The Cars famously used as part of the Live Aid concert in 1985
50 Down : Salmon in a 1935 story by Henry Williamson

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