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The finest, most expensive blue pigment used in renaissance painting, often used for the robes of the Virgin Mary (11)
Purple dye, highly prized by the Romans and made by the Phoenicians, ? Purple (6)
The Orange river is the longest in this African country (5,6)
Actor who played the father of the Black Adder (5,7)
Black bean sauce, used in Chinese cooking, is made from these beans (4)
Screenwriter blacklisted by Hollywood as a communist, whose public credits for ‘Exodus’ and ‘Spartacus’ in 1960 marked the beginning of the end for the blacklist (6,6)
The Black Prince (6)
North African country where you can find The White Desert (5)
Author of ‘The Colour Purple’ (6)
Jacobean dramatist who wrote The White Devil’ and The Duchess of Malfi (7)
Chemical used to make teeth whiter (8,8)
Author of ‘The Woman in Black’, the stage adaptation of which is now the second longest running play in the history of the West End (4)
‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ group (6,5)
Booker Prize winning author whose works include ‘The Red and the Green’ and The Green Knight’ (4,7)
Home city of team accused of throwing the 1919 baseball World Series, that lead to them being rechristened ‘The Black Sox’ by the media (7)
Their rugby team is known as the ‘All Blacks’. Their national football team is known as the ‘All ?’ (6)
Don’t step on these even if they’re not blue (5,5)
The Yellow River is the second largest in this country (5)
‘Anne of Green Gables’ sequel, ‘Anne of ?’ (7)
Down
Moon of the Red Planet, named for the personification of fear in Greek mythology (6)
Blue Hawaii actress more famous for role as tv sleuth (6,8)
Heavy metal used in face powder by Elizabeth I to make skin appear whiter (4)
Fruiting fungus, the white variety of which is known as white gold for price they can command 7)
In Muslim countries the Red Cross humanitarian aid movement is known as the Red ? (8)
Island country off the coast of NorthWest Africa whose name translates as Green Cape (4,5)
Gordon Brown succeeded this man as Chancellor of the Exchequer (7,6)
Composer of The Blue Danube (7)
Artist who created The Blue Nudes (5,7)
White Sea port city in northern Russia whose city arms appropriately depict Michael defeating the devil (9)
Why grass is green (11)
The plant that was used to dye the cloth for the ‘redcoats’ of lower ranks of the British army until the late 1800s (4,6)
Yellowstone National Park is mostly in this US state (7)
Yellowcake is a refined ore containing this element, which then undergoes enrichment to make fuel rods (7)
The first part of the Latin name of the Red Admiral butterfly, which shares its name with an actor of the Redgrave family (7)
‘White Teeth’ author (5)
Name of famous blue diamond (4)