GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Founder and first king of Thebes in Greek mythology (6) 8 African country that includes Hwange National Park (8) 9 Justice Ruth Bader, served on the U.S. Supreme Court until her death in 2020 (8) 10 Mike, English film director who made the 1971 gangster film Get Carter (6) 11 In a secretive

fashion (2,3,3) 12 ____ ye not, a catchphrase of English comedian Frankie Howerd (6) 13 A supporter of close co-operation between western Europe and the U.S. (11) 18 ____ level, a device designed to check whether a surface is horizontal or vertical (6) 20 Moves away from

someone or something (8) 22 Hamza, Sudanese-British wildlife cameraman who won the 2022 series of Strictly Come Dancing (6) 23 Expression meaning ‘protesting vigorously about something’ (2,2,4) 24 English actor who played Mr Ollivander in the Harry Potter film series (4,4) 25 A constellation in the northern sky that contains the star Arcturus (6)

DOWN

1 A form of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing (7) 2 Informal term for a very successful film, show, song or performer (5,3) 3 Subjects that people are arguing about or discussing (6) 4 Expressing something

forcibly and clearly (8) 5 One-armed ____, a type of slot machine with a metal handle on the side to operate it (6) 6 John, British investigative TV journalist who was born in 1958 (7) 8 Alter ego created by

David Bowie in 1972 (5,8) 14 A soft, silvery white radioactive metal whose name derives from the Greek for ‘ray’ (8) 15 Thomas, English cabinet maker and furniture designer born in 1751 (8) 16 Describing jeans that look so tight that they give the appearance of being applied by aerosol (5-2) 17 Speak with difficulty (7) 19 Elemi and galbanum are examples of such sticky organic substances (6) 21 Novel by cartoonist and writer George du Maurier that features the character Svengali (6)

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