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General knowledge for a gentle change after last week. How well do you know the world’s cities? If you prefer to work on the interactive version, click on this link that will take you to the Crossword Compiler page.

Across

7 Capital and largest city of Colombia; located in central Colombia on a high fertile plain (6)

8 A major city in southwest Morocco (6)

9 Palestinian city with a population of about 410,000 – the largest city in the Palestinian territories (4)

10 Scotland’s third most populous city – the Granite City (8)

11 The capital city of Emilia-Romagna in the Po Valley of Northern Italy (7)

13 A city prefecture of Weifang in the Chinese province of Shandong. Part of the Great Wall of Qi begins there (5)

15 A city in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region between the Adriatic sea and the Alps (5)

17 A city in southwestern Virginia (7)

20 An island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela (8)

21 A city in Tuscany; site of the famous Leaning Tower (4)

23 A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558 (6)

24 A Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay in the north-central part of Spain (6)

Down

1 Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire (4)

2 A constitutional monarchy in a tiny enclave on the French Riviera (6)

3 A city in northern Togo, 638 km north of the capital Lomé, near the border with Burkina Faso (7)

4 A city in northwestern Switzerland (5)

5 A city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia and a borough in inner north London (6)

6 A port city in southwestern Ireland that gave its name to a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba (8)

12 A city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum (8)

14 A city in central Argentina; site of a university founded in 1613 and a city in southern Spain; centre of Moorish culture (7)

16 A town and county in Jilin, China (6)

18 A port and tourist centre in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region (6)

19 A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea (5)

22 The second largest city in Tunisia; located in eastern Tunisia near a phosphate region (4)

Here is last week’s solution. The down clues were all anagrams of a word that appeared in the clue:

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