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The questions

1 What TV cliffhanger was resolved on 21 November 1980?
2 Which body in the solar system has lakes of liquid methane?
3 What Yorkshire side were the first national women’s football league champions?
4 In a 1941 film, what was “the stuff that dreams are made of”?
5 Who writes the Empyrean fantasy book series?
6 What does the US defense department classify as UAP?
7 What arboreal project occupies 200 square miles of central England?
8 Which monarch was killed in 1057 at the Battle of Lumphanan?
What links:
9 Emotion icon; glamorous camping; smoke and fog; fan magazine; romantic comedy?
10 Cantuar; Dunelm; Ebor; Petriburg; Roffen; Sarum?
11 Tom Cruise (6.5 mins, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation); Kate Winslet (7.25 mins, Avatar: The Way of Water)?
12 Seth Pecksniff; Howard Roark; Anthony Royal; Rudolf Santonix?
13 Back; basting; blind; cross; running; slip; zigzag?
14 8 (1950-60); 9 (1961-90); 10 (1991-2009); 25 (since 2010)?
15 Truby King; Benjamin Spock; Donald Winnicott; Penelope Leach; Gina Ford; Jo Frost?

The answers

1 Who shot JR (Dallas).
2 Titan (moon of Saturn).
3 Doncaster Belles (1992).
4 The Maltese Falcon.
5 Rebecca Yarros.
6 Unexplained anomalous (originally, aerial) phenomena, ie UFOs etc.
7 National Forest.
8 Macbeth.
9 Portmanteau words in full: emoticon; glamping; smog; fanzine; romcom.
10 Dioceses in signatures of (arch)bishops: Canterbury; Durham; York; Peterborough; Rochester; Salisbury.
11 Actors holding breath underwater.
12 Architects in novels: Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit; Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead; JG Ballard’s High-Rise; Agatha Christie’s Endless Night.
13 Types of stitch.
14 Points for a grand prix win in Formula One.
15 Childcare gurus.