GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Royal title assumed by Sarah Ferguson in 1986 (7,2,4) 8 ___ Berry, food writer and an original judge on The Great British Bake Off (4) 9 A police officer in charge of a specially trained canine (3,7) 10 A group of pupils in a school of roughly equal ability or

following a particular course of study (6) 11 To loosen the fastening for a band or strap (8) 12 Term for the Church of England’s members (9) 14 Augustus and Gwen, Welsh siblings and painters who

specialised in portraits and interiors (4) 15 A colloquial term for an informer (4) 16 A Muslim religious leader of the Shia sect (9) 20 Ballet by Tchaikovsky that premiered in 1877 (4,4) 21 A large grey rain cloud (6) 23 A projecting bracket for supporting balconies, girders

and stairs (10) 24 Sweeney, the demon barber of Fleet Street (4) 25 An official list of those legally entitled to vote (9,4)

DOWN

1 Angus, the original presenter of Have I Got News For You (7) 2 River on which Glasgow stands (5) 3 Regularly found or prevalent in a particular area (7) 4 Actress who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien film franchise (9,6) 5 In cookery, prepared or served with lit alcohol (6) 6 People with traditional or dated attitudes and ways (3,6) 7 Moscow building complex that contains the official residence of the President of Russia (7) 13 An opera glass (9) 15 Former prison and execution site in the City

of London (7) 17 A plant’s slender threadlike shoot, often growing in

a spiral form (7) 18 ____ Castle, ancestral seat of the Dukes of Norfolk (7) 19 Shakespeare play in which the characters Ophelia and

Polonius appear (6) 22 A short phrase adopted as representative of a person,

family or organisation (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW