GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Section of the ancient Silk Road, connecting Central and South Asia (6,4)

6. “The manager __ how and when; the leader __ what and why”: Warren Bennis (4)

9. Secretary of State and spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I of England (10)

10. Breed of short-haired tail-less cat (4)

12. Literal translation of ‘origami’ (5,7)

15. Compound added to a system to cause a chemical reaction (7)

16. Special __, visual tricks used in the film and television industries (7)

17. Information turned into an illustrated diagram in a newspaper or magazine (7)

19. Form of ultra nationalism whose name comes from the Latin for ‘bundle of rods’ (7)

20. A fondness or love of cats (12)

23. Fruit of the blackthorn, used in a type of gin (4)

24. Variety of fino sherry (10)

25. Eldest of the four Baldwin acting brothers (4)

26. Bomb designed to burst into flames on striking a target (10)

Down

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2.

Winner of the 1983 Melbourne Cup (4) Mythical heraldic animal, depicted as a horse with tusks and horns (4)

3. English social reformer, 1780-1845, referred to as ‘the angel of prisons’ (9,3)

4. Any coloured material of animal or plant cells (7)

5. Informal term for any university student (7)

7. Champion 1930s US racehorse, subject of a 2003 film (10)

8. The name for the second Sunday before Ash Wednesday (10)

11. Cocktail of bourbon or rye whiskey, a sugar cube and dash of water (3-9)

13. Flowering plant commonly known as Angel’s Trumpets (10)

14. Italian dessert consisting of egg yolks, sugar and marsala (10)

18. ___ & Tennille, duo who released the 1979 song Do That to Me One More Time (7)

19. Teacher who features on the animated television series The Magic School Bus (7)

21. Stage name of Michael Peter Balzary, founding member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers (4)

22. South American short-tailed rodent (4)