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GUIGNOLBloodthirsty character in 18th- century marionette plays, whose name was used for a Paris theatre associated with horror plays (7)
SIRJOHNFALSTAFFCharacter in three other Shakespeare plays whose death is mentioned in Henry V
PRESENTLAUGHTERNoel Coward play whose name comes from a song in Twelfth Night
PARCPlace for a Paris picnic
ALYCIDONOne of the racehorses whose name was used for a Class 55. Only a CID officer can tell you which one (8)
APOLLOGreek god whose name was used for a former NASA space program
WOLFSONPhilanthropist and former GUS chairman whose name was used for colleges at Oxford and Cambridge (7)
DRACULAA bloodthirsty character (7)
NOSFERATUBloodthirsty character unusual for Austen
STOKERCreator of bloodthirsty character, one adding fuel to the fire (6)
ALEC___ Berg (TV writer whose name was used as a key character in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode)
THOMASGRADGRINDSuperintendent in Dickens' Hard Times, whose name was used generimlly for someone only interested in cold facts and numbers (6,9)
DREADNOUGHTBritish battleship, launched in 1906, whose name was used to describe a new design of ship (11)
GLASSONIBeatles song whose name was used in a 2022 movie title
HECATEGoddess of sorcery whose name was used by light rail champion Colonel Stephens for at least three engines (6)
TOMTHUMBDiminutive hero of several English folk tales whose name was used by Charles Stratton in P T Barnum's circus
SMERSHRussian counter-intelligence organisation whose name was used in some Ian Fleming books (6)
STREAMIslands In The ____, Ernest Hemingway novel whose title was used for a 1983 hit song (6)
SALSIFYCommon name for Tragopogon porrifolius, a root vegetable which was eaten in 18th-century Britain
SPECTATORPeriodical founded by Steele and Addison in 1711; the name was used again in 1828 for today's political weekly