GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

7/8 The profits of which American’s 1990 album The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories? went to pay for his $16 million back tax bill? (6,6)

10 What is the chief component of cane or beet sugar? (7)

11 What word meaning “a look” came from a Hindi word? (5)

12 There are three Es in which four-letter word? (4)

13 What is an informal name for the southern states of the US? (5)

17 What twill fabric is much used for suit making? (5)

18 A yokozuna is a grand champion in what type of wrestling? (4)

22 What interests an arboriculturist? (5)

23 What is a volume containing several works previously published separately? (7)

24 What did German Philip Griebel make for gardens from the mid-1800s? (6)

25 A Dane, Norwegian or Swede who raided by sea in much of Europe from the 8th to the 11th Centuries is known as what? (6)

DOWN

1 Which 1996 film features researchers who chase tornadoes? (7)

2 A serac is a pinnacle or ridge of ice on the surface of a what? (7)

3 What is a piece of turf dug out by a golfer? (5) 4 What threadlike stem grows from a climbing plant? (7)

5 Kansai International Airport is close to which city? (5)

6 Early Egyptians believed which vegetable symbolised eternal life? (5)

9 Which firearms maker also made the first commercial typewriter? (9)

14 What solid transparent plastic was invented by Canadian William Chalmers? (7)

15 What open cart was used to convey prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution? (7)

16 What is a spray of flowers pinned to a dress? (7)

19 What describes people who buy new shares intending to sell quickly at a profit? (5)

20 Where was Christopher Columbus born? (5) 21 What is a heavy iron block on which hot metal is forged? (5)