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General knowledge again this week. If you prefer to work on the interactive version of the crossword, click on this LINK that will take you to the Crossword Compiler website.

Across

    1  Philippine banana trees having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc (6)

    4  Living organisms characterized by voluntary movement (6)

    9  US name for pauses in lines of verse (7)

  10  Navigator system for pilots (5)

  11  Feeling of being bored by something tedious (5)

  12  Chief magistrates in ancient Athens (7)

  13  Person who inhales to achieve hallucinatory effects (4-7)

  18  Competitive exhibition of canines (3,4)

  20  French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937) (5)

  22  State of disgrace resulting from detestable behaviour (5)

  23  Aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity (7)

  24  Small piece of cloth or paper (3,3)

  25  In an accurate manner locally (6)

Down

    1  Structured with wedge-shaped stones or other pieces supporting each other by mutual pressure and able to sustain an overlying weight (6)

    2  Malicious burning to destroy property (5)

    3  The length of a particular broadcast (7)

    5  Of a collection of ancient mythological and heroic Scandinavian songs (5)

    6  Complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent (7)

    7  Not dense (6)

    8  English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727) (5,6)

  14  Garment covering a limb (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) (7)

  15  Someone whose occupation is making or repairing garments of animal skin (7)

  16  Quick or skilful or adept in action or thought (6)

  17  Even though (6)

  19  Relating to a person (5)

  21  Seeking or striving for the same thing as someone else (5)

Here is last week’s solution. The nine members of a set of twelve were signs of the zodiac.

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