GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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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
7 Clyde ____, U.S. astronomer who discovered the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930 (8) 9 ____ pipit, small UK farmland bird (Anthus pratensis) (6) 10 Units of electrical resistance (4) 11 Song, album and film soundtrack released by U.S. musician Prince in 1984 (6,4) 12 A gigantic tropical and subtropical grass with a hollow-jointed woody stem (6) 14 A preface in a book (8) 15 ____ sickness, a disorder affecting divers suddenly subjected to decreased air pressure (13) 17 Rich, leisured and hedonistic young males (8) 19 ____ Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines noted for her massive shoe collection (6) 21 British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1962 and 1968 (6,4) 22 Susie ____, lexicographer on the TV game show Countdown (4) 23 Siegfried’s wife in Germanic
legend and literature (6) 24 Albert ____, German-born physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 (8)
DOWN
1 Hagia ____ , mosque in Istanbul originally built as a Christian church (6) 2 Wading bird venerated in ancient Egypt (4) 3 Place at a spa where medicinal water is dispensed (4,4) 4 The ____ , steel roller coaster at Alton Towers that opened in 2013 (6) 5 U.S. singer/songwriter born in 1944 nicknamed The Walrus of Love (5,5) 6 An elementary particle with the same mass as an electron but an equal and positive charge (8) 8 Watford and Stevenage are in this English county (13) 13 Protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair (5,5) 15 An acute, transient condition associated with fever (8) 16 Iain ____, Scottish comedian who narrates the reality TV show Love Island (8) 18 Haley Joel, U.S. actor who starred in the 1999 supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (6) 20 ____ Taylor, Northern Irish former snooker player who won the 1985 World Snooker Championship (6) 22 Alternative components to
dashes in Morse Code (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW