GK Crossword No. 7
by Medusa

Across

1939 film starring Judy Garland as a Kansas girl who goes over the rainbow (3,6,2,2)
Acute viral disease epidemic parotitis (5)
Chinese communist leader who wrote a little red book [Pinyin spelling] (3,6)
Lacey ---, played Claudia Salinger in soap Party of Five (7)
10 --- Holyfield, US Heavyweight boxer (7)
11 A constellation on the equator east of Taurus (5)
12 Character from but not of The Three Musketeers (1'8)
14 Twain's Mississippi river boy (3,6)
17 Compromise of ---, where Ferdinand I of Aragón was chosen in 1410 (5)
19 He killed his father and married his mother - no wonder he was so complex! (7)
21 Amphibious assault, Feb/Mar '45 (3,4)
22 Wife of Hiawatha (9)
23 Asian river about 2,900km long which rises in Tibet (5)
24 US singer who first reached the charts in 1980 with Jump To The Beat (5,8)

Down

Kettledrum (7)
Sir Jacob ---, Anglo-American sculptor who died in 1959 (7)
Positive electrode (5)
Boetian festival in honour of Hera (7)
English battle victory of 1513 (7)
US duo who reached number one with In The Year 2525 in 1969 (5,3,5)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character (7,6)
In an softened manner (7)
13 Mountain on the Brazil-Guyana-Venezuela frontier (7)
15 The Virgin Mary (7)
16 Cumbrian town with annual horse fair in June (7)
17 Small sweet biscuits; sort of Internet visiting cards (7)
18 Cumbrian mountain, 930m high (7)
20 Zulu chief who seized power from his brother in 1816 (5)


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