GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Tomaso, Italian Baroque composer noted for his Adagio In G Minor (8) 9 ____ Stadium, Manchester City’s home ground (6) 10 Wading bird with a slender, curved bill (6) 11 David and Victoria Beckham’s oldest child (8) 12 German surrealist whose alter ego was the bird Loplop (3,5) 13 Type of mushroom with black spores (6) 14 Jamie, Billy Elliot actor (4) 16 Nikola, Serbian-American engineer and inventor (5) 17 ___ and Lucia, series of novels by E.F. Benson (4) 18 ____ Margolyes, Professor Sprout actress in the Harry Potter film series (6) 20 Person involved in a civil legal case (8) 23 He voices Buzz Lightyear for the Toy Story franchise (3,5) 24 ____ gland, pea-sized organ in the brain that secretes melatonin (6) 25 Native of a Middle East country whose capital is Sana’a (6) 26 Another name for brandy (3,2,3)

DOWN

1 ___ Colman, who plays Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown’s third series (6) 2 Joni, Canadian singer/songwriter noted for Big Yellow Taxi (8) 3 ____ Tea Party, 1773 protest by U.S. colonists against British taxes (6) 4 Principal female character in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson (7,8) 5 Genus of flowering plants including speedwell (8) 6 Wild Bill ____ , U.S. frontiersman and army scout (6) 7 Safe source of illumination used by miners (4,4) 15 Buildings (8) 16 Gary Preston actor in the sitcom Miranda (3,5) 17 Paul, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain in 2014 (8) 19 ____ Hodgins, who plays Victoria Sugden in Emmerdale (6) 21 1986 film in which Tom Cruise plays a fighter pilot nicknamed Maverick (3,3) 22 Nutrient known as vitamin B3 (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW