GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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
8 A byname of England’s Queen Elizabeth I (8) 9 A device used to connect a personal computer to the internet or a network (6) 10 Cuts of meat that include fillet and sirloin (6) 11 Ben, English actor who played Itzhak Stern in the 1993 film Schindler’s List (8) 12 A veiled reference to something rude or unpleasant (8) 13 French cosmetics company founded by Eugène Schueller in 1909 (6) 14 Scottish island separated from the mainland by the Kyle of Lochalsh (4) 16 Anil Kumble and Sachin Tendulkar played international cricket for this country (5) 17 The third son of Adam and Eve in the Bible (4) 18 James, U.S. actor and director who played Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film trilogy (6) 20 An area of wet, boggy land that gives way under foot (8) 23 The first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station with the European Space Agency (3,5) 24 A list of items to be discussed at a formal meeting (6) 25 Roger, drummer in the English rock band Queen (6) 26 Humanitarian agency founded in 1863 by Swiss social activist Henri Dunant (3,5)
DOWN
1 Coeliacs have an abnormal sensitivity to this cerealgrain protein group (6) 2 National ____ , a public figure regarded with affection and seen as a cultural asset to a country (8) 3 Violet, actress who played Ena Sharples in Coronation Street (6) 4 Cruel headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in Charles Dickens’s novel Nicholas Nickleby (8,7) 5 ____ Scales, actress who played Sybil Fawlty in the TV sitcom Fawlty Towers (8) 6 A ship’s officer responsible for provisions and keeping accounts (6) 7 The ____ , 2015 adventure film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as frontiersman Hugh Glass (8) 15 Sarah, StarCraft video games villain called Queen of Blades (8) 16 Immoderate veneration for any person or thing (8) 17 The exact correspondence of parts on either side of a straight line or plane (8) 19 A teat on a woman’s breast from which milk is secreted (6) 21 ____ Holden, Britain’s Got Talent judge whose autobiography No Holding Back was published in 2013 (6) 22 Pungent cruciferous plant eaten raw as a salad vegetable or an appetiser (6) SOLUTION TOMORROW