GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 ____ Head, chalk headland in East Sussex near Eastbourne (6) 8 Annual season of musical concerts founded in 1895, mostly held at London’s Royal Albert Hall (3,5) 9 A portrait of a female with a half-smile on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci (4,4) 10 A male goose (6) 11 A star cluster also known as Seven Sisters (8) 12 A wide street, sometimes bordered by trees (6) 13 A vegetable of the Brassica family with an edible, usually white coloured head (11) 18 A small ingenious device, often using modern technology (6) 20 A weapon for shooting bolts (8) 22 ____ Hancock, actress married to John Thaw, whose memoir The Two of Us was published in 2004 (6) 23 A gift or church collection (8) 24 An organism or substance that causes disease (8) 25 Annual dog show held by the Kennel Club (6)

DOWN

1 The kicks of a gun (7) 2 A nerve-related pain in the lower back (8) 3 Any immense number (6) 4 General ____ , Argentine navy ship sunk by British forces in the Falklands War of 1982 (8) 5 National rugby union team that last won the Six Nations in 2010 (6) 6 Momentum (7) 8 The ____ , song by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles first released in 1967 (5,2,1,5) 14 Torpor or heavy unnatural slumber (8) 15 To cover with a sheet or envelop (8) 16 Type of bet made on the same runner to win or come in second or third (4,3) 17 Nickname for Watford FC (7) 19 A Japanese girl trained to provide entertainment for men (6) 21 ____ block, large building housing commercial or work premises (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW