GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 An equine that draws a four-wheeled vehicle for passengers (8,5) 8 Steve, English former middle-distance runner (4) 9 String of text identifying a specific website or resource (6,4) 10 ____ republic, derogatory term for an unstable country dependent on exports (6) 11 Equestrian sport featuring the disciplines of crosscountry, dressage and show jumping (8) 12 A butterfly pupa (9) 14 The ____ , series of life simulation video games first released in 2000 (4) 15 Dr Chris, role played by U.S. actor Donald Faison in the TV comedy Scrubs (4) 16 Name of the character ‘&’ (9) 20 Medieval competition between two lancebearing knights on horseback (8) 21 A dried grape (6) 23 Relating to the art of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals (10) 24 Bon ____ , U.S. indie folk band who collaborated with Taylor Swift on the song Exile (4) 25 British former rower who won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2000 (5,8)

DOWN

1 The ____ , Irish racecourse in County Kildare that hosts the Irish Derby (7) 2 A lively Afro-Caribbean dance following a square pattern (5) 3 ____ Jones, archaeologist played on screen by Harrison Ford in four films (7) 4 TV sitcom starring Kathy Burke as loud-mouthed Londoner Linda La Hughes (5,5,5) 5 ____ Baldwin, U.S. model married to Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber (6) 6 Female or young male hen harriers (9) 7 Animals of the weasel tribe usually called stoats in the UK (7) 13 ____ terrier, a small, longhaired breed of dog (9) 15 People who lived in an ancient city in northwestern Anatolia (7) 17 A device of soft material for keeping out sound (7) 18 Innocence or ingenuousness (7) 19 An ancient vessel with two banks of oars (6) 22 Island in the Mediterranean where Wham! recorded the music video for Club Tropicana (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW