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9 Across : The first Elvis Costello single that credited the Attractions as his backing band
12 Across : Design involving small pieces of coloured glass, stone etc fitted together
13 Across : Fluid, containing chiefly white blood cells, that is collected from the tissues of the body
14 Across : The capital of Curaçao
15 Across : British poet who was poet laureate from 1968 to 1972
16 Across : A large destructive sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, subsidence or volcanic eruption
17 Across : Opel model sold as the Vauxhall Astra in the UK
18 Across : The first Temptations single to feature David Ruffin on lead vocals
19 Across : J K ___, economist and diplomat who wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State
23 Across : Malaysian oil and gas company founded in 1974
25 Across : Site of a penal colony here in French Guiana featured in Henri Charrière's memoir Papillon
28 Across : Martin ___, scorer of one of England's four goals in the 1966 World Cup Final
30 Across : Author who created Harry Potter
31 Across : The former Hindu custom whereby a widow burnt herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
32 Across : Inflammation of the brain
33 Across : A shrub or small tree with tiny scale-like leaves on slender branches
36 Across : A short-barrelled pocket pistol of large calibre
38 Across : In mountaineering, a short portable ladder or set of webbing loops that can be attached to a karabiner or fifi hook
40 Across : The second largest city in Poland
43 Across : Italian dumplings made with semolina pasta or potatoes
46 Across : English author whose works include The Heaven Tree Trilogy
48 Across : Body of water in New York state used by the US Navy to test equipment such as transducers and sonar arrays and systems
49 Across : Italian ball game closely related to French pétanque
50 Across : Pseudonymous street artist who directed and starred in the documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop
52 Across : Song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King that made The Shirelles the first all-girl group to have a US number one single

All Down Clues and Answers:

1 Down : Ernest ___, British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic, during the first of which the south magnetic pole was located
2 Down : Ford model replaced by the Escort
3 Down : The study of the sources and development of words
4 Down : Capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan
5 Down : Island in the Straits of Florida associated with Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams
6 Down : Black grape used in winemaking whose name literally means "young blackbird"
7 Down : The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism
8 Down : The surname of the Judas who betrayed Jesus, according to the New Testament
9 Down : First baseman in the Abbott and Costello routine featured in the film Rain Man
10 Down : A portion or instalment, especially of a loan or share issue, from the French for 'slice'
11 Down : "They went to sea in a Sieve, they did", according to Edward Lear
15 Down : A small slow-moving lizard with the ability to change colour
18 Down : 1888 play by August Strindberg set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Swedish count
20 Down : Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth
21 Down : Playable game mode in the Super Smash Bros. franchise in which players must defeat every character
22 Down : Real first name of Kim Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister
24 Down : The small graceful animal Capreolus capreolus
25 Down : George ___, the man with the scores played by Matt Lucas on the TV game show Shooting Stars
26 Down : Danish physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics
27 Down : The largest island of Greece
29 Down : City in eastern New York, near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers
34 Down : Belfast-born rugby player who won 69 caps for Ireland and 12 for the British and Irish Lions
35 Down : Central character in the sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister played by Paul Eddington
37 Down : The bird Bubo bubo
39 Down : Small furry animals in the Star Trek universe that react to the presence of Klingons
41 Down : Captured Trojan commander exchanged for Cressida in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida
42 Down : 1977 Don Siegel spy film starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and Lee Remick
44 Down : Surname shared by the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland football managers at Euro 2016
45 Down : In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from "27 Down"
47 Down : In Greek mythology, a Phoenician king of Tyre who was the father of Europa
51 Down : 2004 horror film directed by James Wan that spawned many sequels

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