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DIVERSIONS

QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

Puzzle No 1603

Clues across

1. Weighing more than 45 tonnes, what were removed from the Pont des Arts in Paris in 2015? (8)

7. What is a suspicion based on intuition rather than fact? (5)

8. In which US state was the first nuclear bomb detonated? (3,6)

9. What word can precede guitar, bridge, force? (3)

10. Reece Witherspoon, David Beckham and Lady Gaga are advocates of what? (4)

11/13. Dick Swiveller is a character in which Charles Dickens novel? (3,3,9,4)

15. What low, transparent cover for plants protects them from cold? (6)

16. Which motor racing Chris was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1995? (4)

18. What indicates the number of strokes a golfer should take for a hole? (3)

20. What is the title of Paul Cézanne’s painting of a man in

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