GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN
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
1 Term for an attacking group of German submarines in World War Two (8) 5 Andrew, English publisher who formed a book publishing company with poet W.E. Windus in 1873 (6) 10 Louis, French chemist and microbiologist who originated the process of sterilising foodstuffs by heating (7) 11 Large flatfish found in northern seas (7) 12 A body of soldiers (5) 13 Bartender in Cheers played by Ted Danson (3,6) 14 Baked sweet of Austrian origin, comprising thin layers of pastry with a filling usually of fruit (12) 18 Noted shopping thoroughfare in London that runs between Marble Arch and Tottenham Court Road (6,6) 21 Scottish Highland mountain overlooking the town of Aviemore (5,4) 23 A jump in the air in skateboarding with the feet still touching the board (5) 24 One who attributes a living soul to non-living objects and natural phenomena (7) 25 Princess _____ , The Queen’s granddaughter who married Jack Brooksbank in 2018 (7) 26 ______ Sunday, Christian feast day that occurs a week after Palm Sunday (6) 27 A coarse, green-skinned banana used as a staple food in tropical countries (8)
DOWN
1 Large deer native to the U.S and eastern Asia (6) 2 Sonny, U.S. ex-heavyweight boxer nicknamed The Big Bear (6) 3 The ____ _____ of Hamelin, narrative poem by Robert Browning about a character hired to remove rats from a town (4,5) 4 Australian actor who has played Thor in eight Marvel Cinematic Universe films (5,9) 6 ____ Ogden, former Coronation Street character played by Jean Alexander (5) 7 Newspapers about half the size of broadsheets, usually with more popular content (8) 8 In a surreptitious fashion (2,3,3) 9 King Henry VIII’s chief adviser largely responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries, executed for treason in 1540 (6,8) 15 A keyboard instrument such as the harmonium (4,5) 16 An assembly of cardinals for the election of a Pope (8) 17 Images or likenesses of people (8) 19 _____ Slagg, fictional columnist in the satirical magazine Private Eye (6) 20 _____ Sea, arm of the Mediterranean located between the Greek peninsula to the west and Turkey to the east (6) 22 Innocent or gullible (5)