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(Please include contact details) ACROSS 1. (3) system, keeping all items from a single context together for analysis and storage. 3. Reno Raines was the hero of this TV action series (8). 7. Flagship of Imperial Navy at Battle of Hoth (8). 10. Eighteenth century style of gardening (5_7). 13. Mike Hammer novel (1,3,4). 14. Film: They charge an arm and a leg! (9,8,7) Also 8D and 43A. 15. (4) Rhames, African_American actor, starred in Dawn of the Dead and Kojak remakes. 16. Lincolnshire building tradition (3,3,4). 18. The first Hopi silversmith, he learnt the art in the 1880s (9). 20. Village said to have been the starting and ending place of the Viking Age (9). 21. (4) Lancaster, WWII bomber. 22. Loanword from Arabic and Digger slang for a female person (4). 26. Ape (anag). 27. Played Captain Rum in Blackadder II (3,5). 29. Gurning British impressionist (4,4). 31. Raw humus (3). 32. Os (4). 34. Circular room feature found in pueblo cultures (4). 35. Decepticon capable of transforming into a cassette player (9). 36. Marine team medic in Aliens (8). 37. The daughter in Family Guy (3). 41. Smartgun operator in Aliens (7). 43. See 14A. 46. Hydrophobic lipophilic substance (3). 47. King of Northumbria (3). 48. Horn used by Roman army (6). 52. Nationality of the Red Bay whaling wrecks (6). 53. Band who appeared twice on The Young Ones (7). 54. Legendary weapon of Qing Dynasty (6,10). Also 5D. 57. Shetland violin (2). 58. 'Gordon is a (5)' 1978 punk badge. 59. See 30D. 61. To recreate a core from flakes (5). 63. Lois and Peter Griffin's bondage safety word (6). 65. Word for cattle used by border reivers (2). 67. Chemical symbol for mercury (2). 69. Garb (anag). 70. Gold (2). 71. "Ubi (3), ibi evacua" Latin saying pertaining to infection. DOWN 1. See 28D. 2. Roman garment (4). 3. (3) Tinto, prehistoric Spanish site yielding 16-20million tons of slag.

4. Tex-Mex dish invented in 1943 (5). 5. See 54A. 6. Company believed to have clandestinely made some of the earliest pornographic films (6). 7. Final phase in a series of Archaic Stage communities in southern California (2). 8. See 14A. 9. The line seven feet and nine-and-one-quarter inches from the face of a dartboard (4). 11. Projections on cannon barrel for mounting and elevation (8). 12. Spiked parts of an anchor (5). 14. The Golden (4), Sir Francis Drake's ship. 15. Layer of alluvial sediment in a glacial lake (5). 17. Mollusc prized by Native Americans of West Coast (8). 18. Brothel tokens (9). 19. New Gold (5), Simple Minds song covered by Utah Saints. 20. German cinema (4). 23. Fossilized footprint (7). 24. Culture inhabiting Tonto Basin 1150-1450AD (6). 25. Native American tribe known by distinctive facial piercing (3,5). 26. See 45D. 28. Embarked on archaeological career after sustaining head injury playing rugby at Cambridge (5,6). Also 1D. 30. Pentagonal prism used in surveying (7,6). Also 59A. 33. Delicate skull bone with thirteen articulations (7). 35. Roman god of the woods (8). 38. Topknots found on Easter Island statues (5) 39. Lesbian Bronze Age site (6). 40. Pre-pottery vessel (5). 42. Character played by Seann William Scott in the American Pie movies (7). 44. 5th century Cumbric saint linked to King Arthur (3). 45. Chief centurion (6,5). Also 26D. 49. First film to be given a '12' certificate by the BBFC (6). 50. Wild cow (6). 51. Dropship pilot in Aliens (5). 55. Blue (5), stimulant plant used by Ancient Egyptians. 56. Highland clan founded by a Norse pirate, enemies of the Keiths (4). 60. Early dynastic Egyptian ruler (2'1). 62. "Reeves, you (3)!" 64. Biblical giant (2). 65. The life force in Ancient Egyptian belief (2). 66. Jade (2). 68. Uniform worn by combatants in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (2).