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Here is a general knowledge crossword as this week’s offering. If you would like to work on the interactive version, click on this link that will take you to the Crossword Compiler web page.

Across

7 A guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships (6)

8 A form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong (6)

9 Small ornamental ladies’ bag for small articles (4)

10 Lighters consisting of thin pieces of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical (8)

11 A Greek of ancient Italy (7)

13 A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony (5)

15 Excessively fat (5)

16 A scholar who specializes in North African languages and culture (7)

18 National Park in California (8)

19 Ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan (4)

21 Musical compositions that evoke rural life (6)

22 Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn (6)

Down

1 A euphemistic expression for death (4)

2 Seemingly small but actually mortal weaknesses (8,5)

3 English blue cheese (7)

4 A sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast (5)

5 Flat area in a county on the east coast of England, popular for water tourism (7,6)

6 Wives or widows of czars (8)

12 Newspapers with half-size pages (8)

14 A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet state (7)

17 The capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States (5)

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

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