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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 A physical, mental or foodbased challenge in the TV reality series I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! (10,5) 8 African capital that is served by Entebbe airport (7) 9 French expression meaning ‘in a body or all together’ (2,5) 10 Unwelcome plants that tend to hinder the growth of others (5) 11 ____ Presley, ex-wife of Elvis who played Jane Spencer in The Naked Gun film series (9) 12 Bedrich, Bohemian composer who wrote the opera The Bartered Bride (7) 14 Former name of the Mariinsky ballet company based in St Petersburg (5) 15 Excessivel­y compliment­ary reviews or overstated advertisem­ents (5) 17 Cases for swords or blades (7) 19 Young protagonis­t in The Three Musketeers, adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (9) 22 Rhys, Welsh actor who played Spike in the 1999 romantic comedy film Notting Hill (5) 23 To select a jury from a list (7) 24 A grainy-textured flavoured water ice (7) 25 Novel and film featuring Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara as central characters (4,4,3,4)

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1 Baked dessert with a puff pastry case lined with a layer of jam and an egg and almond paste mix (8,7) 2 Annice, English businesswo­man after whom a British lingerie retail chain founded in 1970 was named (7) 3 Term in the U.S. for lorry or truck drivers (9) 4 An involuntar­y and painful contractio­n of the muscles often caused by overexerti­on (5) 5 Bernard, German-born Australian tennis player noted for his on and off-court altercatio­ns (5) 6 Narrow or prejudiced in feelings, ideas or manners (7) 7 Former U.S. marine and assassin of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 (3,6,6) 9 The territory of an Arab chieftain or ruler (7) 13 English football team whose strikers have included Charlie George and Thierry Henry (7) 14 A pelagic gull with generally white plumage and long, narrow wings (9) 16 A brazier or portable grate (4,3) 18 A language widely spoken in eastern Africa (7) 20 Jonathan, English cricket broadcaste­r and former fast bowler (5) 21 A ____ At The Opera, album by Queen released in 1975 that contains the song Bohemian Rhapsody (5)

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