GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN
ACROSS
1 To rant as a preacher or public speaker (3-5) 5 Hindu deity who created the universe (6) 10 Without legal force or cogency (7) 11 Racecourse where the Grand National is run (7) 12 Stage name of the second oldest member of the Marx Brothers (5) 13 Actor who preceded Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who (4,5) 14 Metropolitan county that includes Birmingham (4,8) 18 Landscaped area set aside for company offices and light industrial premises (8,4) 21 Novel about a wolfdog by Jack London, first published in 1906 (5,4) 23 Crimean site of a 1945 wartime conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (5) 24 Exhausted or
discontinued (2,2,3) 25 Most populous city in California’s Orange County (7) 26 _ _ _ _ _ _ Glennie, Scottish virtuoso percussionist profoundly deaf since the age of 12 (6) 27 New York City borough that includes the Yankee Stadium (3,5)
DOWN
1 Chinese system of exercise and self-defence (3,3) 2 Madame _ _ _ _ _ _ , novel by Gustave Flaubert (6) 3 The eve of All Saints’ Day celebrated by children trick-or-treating (9) 4 Museum of wax figures in London (6,8) 6 Steps on a ladder (5) 7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Granger, Harry Potter character played on screen by Emma Watson (8) 8 Precious stone of a clear violet or bluish purple colour (8) 9 Fictional pirate who sailed in the Black Pig ship, created by John Ryan (7,7) 15 Actor who played Gavin’s father in Gavin & Stacey (5,4) 16 Parliamentary constituency in Wales represented by Labour’s Michael Foot from 1960 to 1983 (4,4) 17 A rough calculation, sometimes of the probable cost of an undertaking (8) 19 Murder mystery game whose characters include Colonel Mustard (6) 20 Film franchise in which the title character has been played by Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy (3,3) 22 _ _ _ _ _ paper, an abrasive used in polishing (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW