GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
7 A forked stick with an elastic string used for firing small stones (8) 9 ____ Eve, actor who played Det Supt Peter Boyd in the TV police procedural series Waking The Dead (6) 10 Tracey, English multimedia artist noted for her installation My Bed (4) 11 Informal term for intelligence or common sense (4,6) 12 An extension to a main building (6) 14 A boneless slice of meat (8) 15 One who charitably gives help to others in need (4,9) 17 French breed of beef cattle with a rich golden coat (8) 19 ____ Tapestry, medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 (6) 21 Blake, patriarch played by John Forsythe in the 1980s U.S. TV series Dynasty (10) 22 Gerald, U.S. president who succeeded Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal (4) 23 The ____ File, thriller by Frederick Forsyth first published in 1972 (6) 24 Having no settled home or social or family ties (8)
DOWN
1 Comic book superhero also called The Caped Crusader (6) 2 Manfred ____ , British ex-blues-based rock band noted for Mighty Quinn, a Bob Dylan cover (4) 3 The ____ Of Calais, series of sculptures by Auguste Rodin portraying six French citizens in The Hundred Years War (8) 4 ____ Kitten, British girl group whose first UK No 1 hit was Whole Again in 2001 (6) 5 Russian author of War And Peace and Anna Karenina (3,7) 6 Plain or unadorned (8) 8 1984 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin (3,10) 13 Travel by visitors to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife (10) 15 Royal house of Monaco headed by Albert II since 2005 (8) 16 Jackie, first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the U.S. in 1947 (8) 18 An ice-cream with syrup or crushed fruit (6) 20 Disturbance or turmoil (6) 22 ____ music, style passed through generations by oral tradition (4)
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