GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

PLAY our accumulator game! Every day this week, solve the crossword to find the letter in the pink circle. On Friday, we’ll provide instructions to submit your five-letter word for your chance to win a luxury Cross pen. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. Terms apply. Entries cost 50p.

ACROSS

7 Protrusion of organ in the body (6) 8 Irish comedian and Goons star (8) 9 Finlandia composer (8) 10 Assisi is in this Italian region (6) 11 Australian state with capital Melbourne (8) 12 Fairground electric car (6) 13 Meccano inventor (5,6) 18 French-speaking part of Canada (6) 20 Summer ____ , June 21st in the UK this

year (8) 22 Luminously bright colour (6) 23 Yellow spice used in curry powder (8) 24 Film franchise originated by George

Lucas (4,4) 25 Pass (6)

DOWN

1 Patron saint of music (7) 2 Pangolin or scaly _______ (8) 3 Very thin sword (6) 4 Edible flat fish (8) 5 ____ the Sailor, heroic mariner (6) 6 Film or play showing in the afternoon (7) 8 U.S. state nicknamed the Bay State (13) 14 ______ Nickleby, Dickens novel (8) 15 Ted Hughes’ predecessor as Poet Laureate (8) 16 Arab Gulf state national (7) 17 Solar ____ when sun is obscured by the Moon (7) 19 Casablanca lead actor (6) 21 Alan Jay, Camelot lyricist (6)