GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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7 Novel by Joyce Carol Oates published in 2000 about the inner world of Marilyn Monroe (6) 8 Edmund Blackadder’s sidekick played by Tony Robinson (8) 9 Lady ____ Creighton-Ward, Thunderbirds character whose chauffeur was Aloysius Parker (8) 10 Fictional detective played on screen by Peter Ustinov and David Suchet among others (6) 11 Medium-sized heart-shaped aromatic variety of sweet red pepper (8) 12 Jane, English author who created the character Fitzwilliam Darcy (6) 13 Louis, British statesman, naval leader and the last Viceroy of India (11) 18 Trevor, English inventor of the wind-up radio (6) 20 Popular novels with rural English settings dealing with middle-class concerns (3,5) 22 Small plant with three-lobed leaves cultivated for fodder (6) 23 Portmanteau term for the two universities who compete in The Boat Race annually (8) 24 Art works in which pieces of paper, photographs and other material are juxtaposed and glued on a surface (8) 25 ____ Edberg, Swedish extennis player who won six Grand Slam singles titles (6)

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1 Small British garden bird named for the colour of its crest, wings and tail (4,3) 2 Fra ____ , 15th century early Renaissance painter (8) 3 Fame or celebrity (6) 4 Dumbo, the title character in a 1941 Disney film, is such an animal (8) 5 Ancient Celtic priests of Britain and Gaul (6) 6 Month in which the Bolshevik Revolution took place in Russia (7) 8 Welsh mountain range whose highest peak is Pen y Fan (6,7) 14 Informal term for handkerchiefs (4,4) 15 A person undergoing a test (8) 16 Large well-armed variety of cargo ship, mainstay of the Spanish treasure fleet (7) 17 A word-guessing game involving the drawing of a gallows (7) 19 Bernard, English radio astronomer and founder of Jodrell Bank Observatory (6) 21 A positioning of soldiers in hiding to surprise and attack an enemy (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW