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Guest compiler, Artix, has provided this thematic crossword. If you wish to work on the Crossword Compiler web page or print a down-loadable pdf. click on this link.

Across

9 Pseudonym of English author born in India (6,6)

10 A pulley with ropes not parallel (4)

11 Overseer of 23ac (3,7)

12 The Buddhist duty of sparing animal life (6)

13 See 28

15 A crab apple fruit or tree (5)

16 Japanese woodblock prints (5-1)

17 A brittle reddish-white element (7)

20 Glaswegian chemist who pioneered waterproof fabrics (9)

22 Brazilian wax palms (9)

23 Totalitarian superstate where 8d lives (7)

25 A liqueur made from the wild cherry (6)

26 Poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 (5)

28/13 Actor who played 8d in a 1984 film version (4,4)

29 Northern Ireland county in which Belfast is situated (6)

31 Satirical fable by 9ac (6,4)

33 Petrol brandname used by ExxonMobil outside the US (4)

34 Actor who played 8d in a 1956 film version (6,6)

Down

1 Hacker slang for “Hello again” (4)

2 Member of the White Rose resistance guillotined in 1943 (6)

3 Indian soldiers in European service (6)

4 Taxophily (7)

5 e.g. YaHWeH (9)

6 The Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland (4)

7 Houseplant used in the title of a comic novel by 9ac (10)

8 Leading character in a book by 9ac (7,5)

14 Christian denomination promoted by John Biddle (12)

16 An open skin boat “manned” by Eskimo women (5)

18/19 Where 8d works (8,2,5)

21 Popular houseplants, Rhapis excelsa, native to Southern China (4,5)

24 Hôtel de ——-, official residence for state visitors to Paris (7)

27 Another name for the Walrus (3,3)

28 C-in-C of the French army between 1914 and 1916 (6)

30 Bamboo Harvester’s most famous TV rôle (2,2)

32 Astronomer who predicted the 2011 Japan earthquake (4)

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