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This week’s crossword is another general knowledge crossword. If you wish to work on the interactive version, please click on this link to access the webpage provided by Crossword Compiler. You can also  get a printable pdf. version of the crossword there.

Across

1 A mixture of mercury with other metals (7)

5 One who believes in the existence of God, but not in a divinely reavealed religion (5)

8 Heavenly light that appeared at 10 (9,4)

9 Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) (3)

10 Annual festival, originally a mass, in celebration of the founder of one of the world’s religions (9)

12 The Jewish prayer-book used for festivals and other special occasions (6)

13 Of or relating to former Eastern Christian or Orthodox churches that have been received under the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome but retain their own rituals and practices and canon law (6)

15 A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication (9)

16 Talk socially without exchanging too much information (3)

18 One who lacks initiative (5-2-3-3)

20 A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) (5)

21 A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore; annexed by Prussia in 1742 but now largely in Poland (7)

Down

1 One or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audiotape and compact disc (5)

2 School of theology in the fourth and fifth centuries AD that was in revolt against the allegorizing of scripture by the Alexandrian school (13)

3 Material woven with threads of precious metal (4-5)

4 Former Indian and Persian gold coins, in India equivalent to fifteen rupees (6)

5 God the master of all (3)

6 The ancient Panhellenic games held biennially in the first and third years of each Olympiad (8,5)

7 A device for coupling pedals in an organ (7)

11 Administrative and judicial title still retained for certain cathedral officials and a judicial position on the Island of Sark (Channel Islands) (9)

12 A theoretical body that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed giving a way of calculating solar time (4,3)

14 Removes faults or blemishes (6)

17 A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste (5)

19 Range of what one can know or understand (3)

Here is last week’s solution. Misprints gave ‘Enter antonyms of italicised clues’ so, for example, when the clue gave ‘dawdle’, the word ‘hasten’ went into the grid – hence the title, ‘Black and White’.

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