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A general knowledge crossword again this week. If you wish to work on the interactive version you should click on this link that will take you to the Crossword Compiler website.

Across

8 Tall New Zealand timber tree (4)

9 Breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy (10)

10 An azure blue semiprecious stone (6)

11 A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes (8)

12 A by-work, any work subsidiary to a person’s principal employment (8)

14 Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (6)

16 Secured by a belt or girdle (4)

17 A numerical quantity measured, assigned or computed (5)

18 A lout or fool in Scotland (4)

19 Live in or as if in a tent (6)

21 The event of being born (8)

23 The pastry covering or enclosing a dessert (8)

26 Derived from lemons, for example (6)

27 While or although not present (2,8)

28 A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood (4)

Down

1 A turning aside (10)

2 Like the fluid secreted by body organs that moistens and protects (8)

3 The performance of a part or role in a drama (6)

4 Light trucks with open bodies, low sides and tailboards (4)

5 Give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations (8)

6 One of the three Furies (6)

7 Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and wife of Osiris (4)

13 A thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers (5)

15 Very low relief, as on coins (10)

17 Became or emitted visible suspension in the air of particles (8)

18 A living organism characterized by voluntary movement (8)

20 Hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan (6)

22 Scots’ adjective meaning such, what, or what a (6)

24 Particles that are electrically charged (positive or negative) (4)

25 At once or promptly in the past (4)

Here is last week’s solution.  Of course the common feature was that all the solutions began with the letter A.

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