GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Dancer who partnered Angela Scanlon in 2023’s Strictly Come Dancing (6,2)

9 Gary, U.S. cartoonist famous for his The Far Side comic strip (6)

10 U.S. city whose American football team is the Broncos (6)

11 A fictional distortion in which people are moved from one period to another (4,4)

12 ____ Dickson Wright, celebrity cook who was one of the BBC’s Two Fat Ladies (8)

13 Liam, actor who voiced Aslan in The Chronicles Of Narnia film trilogy (6) 14 A postponement or suspension of judicial proceedings (4)

16 Historic indigenous people of the Caribbean (5)

17 ____ Williams, DJ noted for hosting shows on Virgin Radio (4) 18 To allay the suspicions of (6)

20 Line on the London Underground that is coloured black on maps (8)

23 Swiss mountain separating the cantons of Bern and Valais (8)

24 Angela, writer of ‘modern schoolgirls’ stories’, born in Preston in 1868 (6)

25 Features cultivated or grown in pogonotrophy (6)

26 Recruited to a cause or military service (8)

DOWN

1 Steve, actor who played Donald Rumsfeld in the 2018 film Vice (6)

2 James, UK Conservative politician who was appointed home secretary in 2023 (8)

3 Takes over illegally or by force (6)

4 Sport founded by Tom Wills in 1858 as a winter alternative to cricket (10,5)

5 A wading bird noted for its adult pink plumage (8)

6 Jackson, rock musician noted for his 1977 album Running On Empty (6)

7 Chocolate-flavoured biscuits with a chocolate cream filling (8)

15 Accolades or commendations (8)

16 A shrub or small tree with tiny scale-like leaves on slender branches (8)

17 To practise a play or other work for future performance (8)

19 The home of the Norse gods (6)

21 Bamm-Bamm, the adopted son of the neighbours of the Flintstones in Bedrock (6)

22 Tomb ____, video game franchise, whose lead has a PhD in archaeology (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW