GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Rapper whose album Damn won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018 (8,5)

8. Small, cosy room, part of an inn or pub (4)

9. Type of body armour from the Middle Ages (10)

10. Alloy of tin with copper and antimony, used to make tankards (6)

11. 1972 wages legislation, __ __ Act (5,3)

12. Group of ancient Jewish leaders whose beliefs differed from the Sadducees (9)

14. Flowerpot friend of Ben in a 1950s children’s TV series (4)

15. A market in which share prices are falling (4)

16. Story about a murder where the killer is not revealed until the end (9)

20. Narrow-edged teeth at the front of the mouth (8)

21. Four-act drama written by Russian playwright Anton Chekov (6)

23. Point of congestion that reduces the flow of traffic (10)

24. Relating to the mouth (4)

25. Law enforcement agency which protects current and former US presidents (6,7)

Down

1.

2.

First King of Scotland (7)

__ Without End: novel by the Scottish writer Alistair MacLean, set in the Arctic (5)

3. Nora ___, best-selling American writer of romance novels (7)

4. Game where the message is distorted after being passed round in a hushed tone (7,8)

5. Sports code which originated in Huddersfield in 1895 (6)

6. Small, oval serving of meat (9)

7. Fictional private detective who was the friend of the deceased Marty Hopkirk in a TV series (7)

13. “Being __ is the most common path to mediocrity”: Will Smith (9)

15. Small candies first made at the French royal court in the 17th Century (7)

17. The Absinthe ___, 1859 painting by Edouard Manet (7)

18. The third principal period of history, occurring after the Bronze Age (4,3)

19. Title of 1974 Dolly Parton single (6)

22. Sauce made of garlic, olive oil and egg (5)