GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Female attendant to a royal (4-2-7) 8 Heinrich, German writer who won the 1972 Nobel Literature Prize (4) 9 Australian-born actor whose last film was Cuban Rebel Girls in 1959 (5,5) 10 Oxfordshire railway town, the site of noted power stations (6) 11 Small flat fish (8) 12 Hymn with words by William Blake and music by Hubert Parry (9) 14 Volcano that overlooks the city of Catania (4) 15 Soft transition metal whose chemical symbol is Au (4) 16 Ex-footballer Andriy Shevchenko has this nationality (9) 20 A decline in productivity or demand (4-4) 21 Joanna, U.S. singer/songwriter who released the album Divers in 2015 (6) 23 Augustus, English ethnologist and archaeologist, founder of an Oxford museum (4,6) 24 Silver coin of ancient Greece (4) 25 Industrial town and county borough in South Wales named after a 5th century princess (7,6)

DOWN

1 To treat as a celebrity (7) 2 City state ruled by Lord Farquaad in Shrek (5) 3 Sluggishness (7) 4 Conflict in the Caribbean between Great Britain and Spain 1739-48 (3,2,7,3) 5 Dome-shaped dwellings built of compacted snow (6) 6 The Emirates Stadium is in this London borough (9) 7 Large-leaved ornamental plant named after a Norwegian bishop and botanist (7) 13 The second largest lake in the Lake District (9) 15 Terry, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas director (7) 17 ____ International, charity founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson (7) 18 Mexican salamander often retaining its larval form (7) 19 ____ Spode, English potter who invented the modern formulation of bone china (6) 22 Virginia, Mrs Dalloway novelist (5)