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General knowledge again this week. Click here if you would like to work on the interactive version. The link is to the Crossword Compiler website.

A votre santé!

Across

7 Gin made in the Netherlands (6)

8 Drinking sessions (6)

9 A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains (4)

10 Liquorice-flavoured usually colourless sweet liqueur made from aniseed (8)

11 Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (7)

13 Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house (5)

15 A jet of vapour (5)

16 Dry red Italian table wine from Tuscany (7)

18 With everything considered (3,2,3)

19 A sparkling white wine (4)

21 A Ghanaian people (6)

22 The provincial capital of the Abruzzi region in central Italy (6)

Down

1 A general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavoured with hops (4)

2 Processes in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol (13)

3 Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression) (7)

4 Full to the top (5)

5 To your health! (1,7,5)

6 Having the most pungent taste (8)

12 A container for spirits carried in a rear pocket (8)

14 Coming from a South American republic (7)

17 Binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colourless odourless tasteless liquid (5)

20 Aromatic yellowish brown balsam used especially in cough syrups (4)

Here is last week’s solution (the unclued lights were types of sheep – thus the woolly thinking):

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