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1 Greek name for Khufu, the Egyptian pharaoh thought to have commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza (6)

4 Italian archbishop of Canterbury and trusted counsellor of William the Conqueror (8)

10 Australian city named after a 19th-century British Whig prime minister (9)

11 Jan____, South African statesman who played an important role in the establishment of the League of Nations (5)

12 Oscar Wilde addressed his De Profundis, written in Reading Gaol, to his lover, “____” (Lord Alfred Douglas) (5)

13 Location of the Jewry Wall, one of the tallest surviving sections of a Roman wall in Britain (9)

The Assyrian king Ashurbanipal is noted for assembling the world’s first systematically organised one

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