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DIVERSIONS

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

Puzzle No 1564

Clues across

1. A lubber line is a direction mark on what? (7)

4. Which bear appeared in The Beano from 1948 to 1999? (5)

7. Usually literary, what is a small island or peninsula? (4)

8. Which New Zealand pulp and paper mill was named after a paper mill on the Water of Leith, Scotland? (8)

10. “I met a traveller from an antique land” is the opening line of which poem by Percy Shelley? (10)

12. What name for a duckshooter’s hide is a corruption of an Australian Aboriginal word for shelter? (6)

13. What do you want if you request a pomodoro in Italy? (6)

15. Duran Duran, the Moody Blues, Traffic, Dexys Midnight Runners, Musical Youth, ELO, UB40, Fine Young Cannibals, Judas Priest and Black Sabbath are all

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