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As usual, the fortnightly General Knowledge crossword. If you wish to work on the interactive version, click on this link which will take you to the Crossword Compiler page – not technically supported by GenevaLunch.

Somewhere!

by Chalicea

The seven unclued lights have a familiar feature in common.

Across

1 Stripey horses! (6)

5 Unclued light (6)

9 Personal beliefs or judgements that are not founded on proof or certainty (10)

10 Makes turbid by stirring up sediments (5)

11 Unclued light (5)

13 Any of various plants of the genus Vernonia that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue (8)

15 Siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836 (5)

16 Related to a depression or fissure where vessels, nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ (5)

17 Channel for communication between groups (7)

19 Takes on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities (7)

21 Once beside (5)

23 Nervous belligerent little mongrel dog (5)

26 Dancers of ballroom dance in triple time (8)

27 Measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return (5)

28 Sensations (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precede the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure (5)

29 Supply of concentrated food, especially for an extreme emergency (two words) (4,6)

30 French  harpsichord composer of the Baroque era (1683 to 1764) (6)

31 Close in (6)

Down

1 Unclued light (6)

2 Those who practise expulsion through adjuration or prayers (10)

3 React verbally (6)

4 Tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (7)

5 Aggressive remarks directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect (5)

6 Young bird not yet fledged (8)

7 Injections of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes (6)

8 Suffering a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain (6)

9 Unclued light (4)

12 Aromatic tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka (10)

14 Unclued light (8)

18 Separate in order to protect or prevent interaction (7)

19 Usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship (6)

20 Violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa (6)

21 Gain with effort (6)

22 Connected network, a web (6)

24 Unclued light (5)

25 Unclued light (4)

Here is last week’s solution. The word that had to be added to those solutions was, of course, ‘ten’ (‘twelve tens’ gave the title ‘One hundred and twenty’)

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