GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

7 Tanzania’s national capital (6) 8 Dislike or antipathy (8) 9 A person possessed by an evil spirit (8) 10 John, U.S. novelist who created the character Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom (6) 11 Part of the forehead between the eyebrows (8) 12 Showing conformity (2,4) 13 Apostle and patron saint of butchers, tanners and

leather workers (11) 18 South African national park established in 1926 (6) 20 Brilliantly coloured short-tailed Asian pheasant (8) 22 The Horsehead and the Tarantula are examples of this

astronomical phenomenon (6) 23 Greedy behaviour (8) 24 Château Latour is an estate in this

winegrowing region (8) 25 Small box for jewels, letters or other valuable items (6)

DOWN

1 Arcangelo, Italian violinist and composer noted for his 12 Concerti Grossi (7) 2 Singer Shakira is a native of this country (8) 3 Mark, Luke Skywalker actor (6) 4 Italian Renaissance painter who taught Raphael (8) 5 Words from actors heard by the audience but supposedly not by other actors (6) 6 The ____ , mountain range forming the backbone of the western North American continent (7) 8 Bird-like dinosaur with wings bearing three clawed digits (13) 14 An open-weave cotton fabric for

stiffening garments (8) 15 The _____ , 1973 horror film directed by

William Friedkin (8) 16 Ancient Roman magistrate ranking below a consul (7) 17 UK shipping forecast area named after a rock off the

southern Irish coast (7) 19 Reg, Australian TV mogul whose company

made Neighbours (6) 21 Woolly domesticated South American animal related

to the llama (6) SOLUTION TOMORROW