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General knowledge again, this week. You might like to work on the interactive version. If so, click on this link which will take you to the Crossword Compiler page (a page which is not technically supported by GenevaLunch).

Across

1 Member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa (6)

5 Member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma (8)

9 Composition for orchestra and a soloist (8)

10 An opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding (6)

11 Tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones (6,6)

13 Member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru (4)

14 Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata (8)

17 Italian dessert consisting of layers of sponge cake soaked with coffee and brandy or liqueur layered with mascarpone cheese and topped with grated chocolate (8)

18 City in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage (4)

20 Large Chilean evergreen conifer having intertwined branches and bearing edible nuts (6,6)

23 Something that stops or prevents something from happening (6)

24 Producing two offspring at a time (8)

25 Household detergent (8)

26 Slang term for a man who plays a guitar or (in jazz) another musical instrument (6)

Down

2 Town in the central Valais (4)

3 Synthetic fabric resembling suede, used in clothing, interior decoration, etc. (9)

4 The Roman Goddess of dawn (6)

5 Imperturbable (4,2,1,8)

6 Inner portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. (8)

7 A £1 note (5)

8 Sweetener (10)

12 Hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behaviour (10)

15 Bony segments of the spinal column (9)

16 King in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down (8)

19 Military cap of a shape adapted from the traditional Polish peasant cap, worn by lancer regiments (6)

21 The standard monetary unit of Sweden (5)

22 The upper part of the throat (4)

Here is last week’s solution. The animals from A A Milne’s A House at Pooh Corner were hidden in the grid (Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and, of course, Tigger).

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