The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 450 - Aug 17 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| A fictional account based on real events or characters | ROMAN |
| Anita __, author of Hotel du Lac | BROOKNER |
| Ben __, author whose works include The Famished Road | OKRI |
| Blank sheet at the front of back of a book | FLYLEAF |
| Éamon __, Irish Taoiseach several times between 1937 and 1959 | DEVALERA |
| Elusive area of female sexual gratification? | GSPOT |
| Fanny Fern's 15/19 from 1854 | RUTH |
| Lord __ Douglas, on whom Robert Hitchen based his scandalous 15/19, The Green Carnation | ALFRED |
| Mountain goat native to Europe and North Africa | IBEX |
| Nickname of Gaius Caesar, Roman emperor, 37-41 AD | CALIGULA |
| Orwell's allegory of Stalinism from 1945 | ANIMAL |
| Rabindranath __, Bengali polymath and poet | TAGORE |
| See 15 Across | ACLEF |
| See 16 | FARM |
| See 24 | HALL |
| Stringed instrument with a deep rounded sounding cavity | LUTE |
| Swiss children's book by Johanna Spyri | HEIDI |
| Texas town where Tony Christie, Peter Kay (and many others) went to find Marie? | AMARILLO |
| The colour of Harold Wilson's resignation honours list in 1976? | LAVENDER |
| The front on which all was quiet in Erich Maria Remarque's 15/19? | WESTERN |
| The largest city in Ivory Coast | ABIDJAN |
| The __, Sylvia Plath's 15/19 from 1963 | BELLJAR |
| Where Hunter S Thompson set his 15/19 of fear and loathing? | LASVEGAS |
| Where Thomas Mann found love and death in his 15/19 from 1912? | VENICE |
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