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General knowledge this week. A number of solutions have something in common. If you wish to work on the interactive version, please click on this link that will take you to Antony Lewis’s  Crossword Compiler website page.

Across

1 Cry of encouragement to foxhounds (6)

4 Bloodsucking African fly (6)

9 Lack of sophistication or worldliness (7)

10 Largely pastoral Islamic people from an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus (5)

11 The distinctive spirit of a culture or an era (5)

12 Inhabitant of a monarchy in northwestern Europe (7)

13 Bohemian legionnaires, who fought alongside the Allies in Russia during the First World War (5,6)

18 A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed (7)

20 Inhabitant of a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula (5)

22 Inhabitant of a region that was known as Cambria in Roman times (5)

23 A fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education) (7)

24 The act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (6)

25 Having a tone of a reed instrument (6)

Down

1 An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War) (6)

2 Inhabitant of Hibernia (5)

3 The Israeli unicameral parliament (7)

5 An ancient Greek colonist in Sicily (5)

6 Of an Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans (7)

7 A member of an ascetic Jewish sect around the time of Jesus (6)

8 Citizens of one of the parts of ex-Yugoslavia (5-6)

14 An aggressive and violent young criminal (7)

15 Of or relating to one of the divisions of the United Kingdom (7)

16 Insect of the order Dermaptera (6)

17 Giving or spending with reluctance (6)

19 Anaemic looking from illness or emotion (5)

21 A web site or email in the style of a magazine (1-4)

Here is the solution to the ‘New Year Resolutions’ and good wishes crossword:

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