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A thematic general knowledge crossword this week. If you wish to work on the interactive version, click on this LINK that will take you to the Crossword Compiler website.

Across

    7  The act of fighting; any contest or struggle (5)

    8  A state of peace agreed to between opponents so that they can discuss peace terms (9)

  10  Trouble for the Scots (6)

11/12  Conflict of 1914 to 1918 (3,5,5,3)

  13  Outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects (5)

  14  A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels (7)

  16  Any of a class of extinct echinoderms – globular or bladder-like animals enclosed in calcareous plates (7)

  19  Take away the weapons from; render harmless (5)

  21  To bind by solemn promise (8)

  23  Not in a masterly way (8)

  24  The quality of being fraudulent (6)

  25  Affecting or influenced by the human mind (9)

  26  Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul (5)

Down

    1  A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will (15)

    2  Someone injured, killed, captured or missing in a military engagement (8)

    3  Bowl-shaped depressions formed by the impact of mines (7)

    4  Without deviation (8)

    5  Bitter conflict; heated, often violent, dissension (6)

    6  Locations for winter sports (3-7,5)

    9  Something intended to communicate a particular impression (4)

  15  Shaped like the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet (8)

  17  Long ditches cut in the ground (8)

  18  A financier who works in one of the banks in London (4,3)

  20 Percussion cap for a toy pistol (6)

  22 Decompression compartments (4)

Here is last week’s solution. The unclued lights were types of firework:

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