GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Country whose highest mountain is Pico de Orizaba (6) 8 Thomas, Australian writer noted for his novel Schindler’s Ark (8) 9 Trixie, nurse in Call The Midwife, played by Helen George (8) 10 ____ Bergman, Swedish director noted for his film The Seventh Seal (6) 11 Items worn to hold up shirtsleeves or as forms of identification (8) 12 Crazy ____, song by The Osmonds that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1972 (6) 13 The use of extreme cold to freeze and remove abnormal tissue (11) 18 Carmen, feminist publisher and writer who founded Virago Press in 1973 (6) 20 ____ High, school in which musical comedy series Glee was set (8) 22 Irish folk music group formed in the early 2000s in Dublin (6) 23 Character in EastEnders played by Adam Woodyatt (3,5) 24 Large cooking vessel associated with witches such as Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters (8) 25 The Resistible Rise Of ____ Ui, play by Bertolt Brecht first performed in 1958 (6)

DOWN

1 Formula One motor racing team whose logo features a prancing horse (7) 2 A bright red mineral of mercury sulphide used as a pigment (8) 3 A mischievous, gnomelike creature in folklore (6) 4 To convert a message or piece of text into coded form (8) 5 City and seaside resort in County Down (6) 6 A tool used by butchers

for chopping meat (7) 8 Hereditary figure in the British royal household whose role was to challenge rivals to a new monarch (5,8) 14 Singer who was runner-up on The X Factor in 2009 (4,4) 15 Cured pork belly in

Italian cuisine (8) 16 Type of road construction pioneered by a Scottish engineer in the 1820s (7) 17 Organs such as antennae used by animals for testing by touch (7) 19 The ____ Lads, TV sitcom starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes (6) 21 Midwestern U.S. state nicknamed the Sunflower State (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW