GK Crossword No. 50 (DT)
by Medusa

Across

Japanese city which received the second atomic bomb on August the 9th 1945 (8)
Rallying cry of the Greek Cypriot movement for union with Greece (6)
10 Shortened form of the name of the 36th President of the USA (1,1,1)
11 Dr Maria ---, Italian educationalist whose first school opened in 1907 (10)
13 Selfish, aggressive driver (4,3)
15 Film entertainment available for audiences in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World (6)
16 Stone-age tribe discovered in the Philipines in 1971, but perhaps a hoax (7)
17 Motorcycle competitions held on the Isle of Man since 1907 (1,1,5)
20 --- bridge, speedily assembled bridge used in World War 2 (6)
22 An inert substance given as medication to a patient (7)
23 Drummer in The Beatles (5,5)
26 A machine that scans a document and transmits it through a telephone link (3)
28 Late 20th century philosophical, religious and social movement seeking an alternative to materialism (3,3)
29 International consortium formed in 1964 to provide global communications (8)

Down

The UK's first twin-jet bomber which first saw action in the Korean War (8)
Use the remote control device on TV or video (3)
Location of 1993 siege and subsequent mass suicide (4)
--- car, one built between 1905 and 1930 (7)
More liberal members of the Conservative party during the Thatcher era (4)
Pacific atoll which was the location of atomic weapon testing which also gave its name to a women's bathing costume (6)
Part of atmosphere which blocks ultraviolet radiation and where holes were detected in the late 80s (5,5)
12 Classic 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart (10)
14 60s and 70s slang term meaning serious, important or meaningful (5)
15 Muslim religious edict such as that issued against Salman Rushdie in 1989 (5)
18 Name of the US plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945 (5,3)
19 Soviet man-made satellite launched in October 1957 (7)
21 Fabric woven into a pattern of small squares and originally a tradename belong to William Hollins and Co. (6)
24 Oil producers' cartel formed in 1960 (4)
25 Putting on the ---, Irving Berlin song of 1929 (4)
27 Middle East group under Arafat since 1968 (abbr.) (3)

Solution


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