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.

WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN ACROSS

8 Singer of Writing’s On The Wall, the Spectre Bond film theme song (3,5) 9 An imaginary and unattainably perfect society (6) 10 Compulsive desire to drink alcohol (10) 11 Rock musical by Jonathan Larson loosely based on La Bohème (4) 12 Protagonist in Kipling’s The Jungle Book (6) 14 Tennessee city and major site in the U.S. Manhattan Project (3,5) 15 Neil, actor who plays DCI John Barnaby in Midsomer Murders (7) 17 Herbert, British PM at the start of World War I (7) 20 Latin name for the island of Ireland (8) 22 Ricky, British ex-boxer nicknamed The Manchester Mexican (6) 24 Urban ___ , strange or surprising story that is usually untrue (4) 25 Colombian cyclist who won the 2019 Tour de France (4,6) 27 Individual with white skin and hair and pink eyes (6) 28 TV sitcom set in the fictional Slade Prison (8)

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1 Al, Michael Corleone actor in the Godfather films (6) 2 Oxford University’s reserve rowing crew (4) 3 Rome’s second airport served mostly by budget airlines (8) 4 Longest river in Ireland (7) 5 John, High Fidelity actor (6) 6 Appliance for compressing an artery to stop bleeding (10) 7 ____ Memories, One Direction’s third studio album released in 2013 (8) 13 Solomon R _____ Museum, New York art collection (10) 16 One-wheeled vehicle used by an acrobat (8) 18 Franz, Austrian composer noted for his song cycle Winterreise (8) 19 Gino, Italian celebrity chef (7) 21 Liam, Oskar Schindler actor in Schindler’s List (6) 23 William III or of ____, British monarch who acceeded in 1689 (6) 26 Mike, actor who played Frank Butcher in EastEnders (4)

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