GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 David, U.S. legal thriller writer whose first book Absolute Power was published in 1996 (8) 9 Ronald, ex-U.S. president

nicknamed The Gipper (6) 10 A row of stitches holding together the edges of a surgical incision (6) 11 Month of the year that

features the winter solstice (8) 12 A roofed platform along the side of a house level with the ground floor (8) 13 Money received through

work or investments (6) 14 A male deer, especially one over five years old when the crown antler begins to appear (4) 16 Mark, Northern Irish snooker player born in 1986, nicknamed The Pistol (5) 17 Francisco, Spanish artist noted for his 1798 painting Witches’ Sabbath (4) 18 Fictional Korean bodyguard to villain Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 Bond film (6) 20 An additional piece of information printed at the bottom of a page (8) 23 A skilled worker who maintains

and repairs vehicle engines (8) 24 The lower horizontal band in Ukraine’s national flag is this colour (6) 25 Trails indicated by the characteristic smells of animals that can be detected by hounds (6) 26 A poisonous evergreen shrub

grown in warm countries (8)

DOWN

1 ____ The Great, Danish king of England who acceded to the throne in 1016 AD (6) 2 A military officer who acts

as an administrative aide to a more senior one (8) 3 A long speech or piece of writing, usually one regarded as tedious (6) 4 The decrease in air temperature felt by a body on exposed skin due to the flow of air (4,5,6) 5 The grip of a tyre on a road

or a wheel on a rail (8) 6 A paved runway at

an airport (6) 7 Ex-Top Gear presenter whose book Notes From The Hard Shoulder was published in 2007 (5,3) 15 A formal interview with a person in authority such as the Pope (8) 16 Anthony, Australian politician who became his country’s prime minister in 2022 (8) 17 The world of

organised crime (8) 19 ____ Sebastian Bach, German composer who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos (6) 21 A colourless, odourless gas used in some welding and metal cutting (6) 22 City in north central France that is the capital of the Aube department (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW