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This week’s puzzle is another general knowledge crossword. If you prefer to work on an interactive version, you should click on this link which will take you to the Crossword Compiler page. That page cannot be technically supported by GenevaLunch.

Across

1 Industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon (7)

5 Peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf (5)

8 1999 film set in the slums of Rio, directed by Carlos Diegue (5)

9 King of Athens who killed the Minotaur (7)

10 British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (6,7)

11 United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (2,4)

12 Frightened in Shakespeare’s day (6)

15 Ability to recognise the exact property of a sound (8,5)

18 Combustible developed from organic matter (7)

19 A felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim (5)

20 Father in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (5)

21 British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (7)

Down

1 Small tropical gannet having a bright bill or bright feet or both (5)

2 City in central Iran; former capital of Persia (7)

3 Cumulonimbi (13)

4 The taking of all territory north of the Rio Grande for Spain in 1598 (2,4)

5 Black lady (5,2,6)

6 Uniform projections on a gear (5)

7 Treated with resin (a violin bow, for example) (7)

11 Yorkshire-born English novelist, biographer and critic (7)

13 Ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility (7)

14 British statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (6)

16 Perthshire home of the stone of destiny (5)

17 Prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (5)

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