GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN

ACROSS

1 Informal term for a cash dispenser (4,2,3,4) 8 Mountain goat with backward-curving horns (4) 9 Winston Churchill’s wife’s first name (10) 10 Type of French porcelain with clear colours and elaborate decorative detail (6) 11 Plant genus including marjoram (8) 12 1995 Booker Prize-winning author (3,6) 14 2011 superhero film starring Chris Hemsworth (4) 15 Light sword used in fencing (4) 16 Sally Ride was a noted U.S. one (9) 20 Copywriter or art director in the advertising industry (8) 21 Electric light that flashes on and off very rapidly (6) 23 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese (6,4) 24 The Picture Of Dorian _ _ _ _ , Oscar Wilde novel (4) 25 Her last completed film role was in

The Misfits (7,6)

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1 Meindert, Dutch Baroque landscape painter (7) 2 Egyptian city known as Waset or Thebes in Antiquity (5) 3 Cutting tooth (7) 4 Fictional pub in Coronation Street (3,6,6) 5 Medicine that causes vomiting (6) 6 Lambskin with curled wool from Central Asia (9) 7 Listlessness (7) 13 British officer between colonel and major-general in rank (9) 15 Gun (7) 17 Italian liqueur traditionally flavoured with sundew (7) 18 Offence (7) 19 ______ van Dijk, Liverpool’s Dutch central defender (6) 22 _____ Waters, Pink Floyd’s lyricist and cofounder (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW

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.