GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
7 Basque town bombed during the Spanish Civil War commemorated in a 1937 Picasso painting (8) 9 Growing old or maturing (6) 10 ____ of the valley, plant with two long oval leaves and spikes of white bell-shaped flowers (4) 11 A genealogical diagram tracing a person’s descent (6,4) 12 Janet ____ , U.S. actress who starred in the original 1937 film version of A Star Is Born (6) 14 A semi-hard cow’s milk cheese originally from the Valais region of Switzerland (8) 15 English stand-up comedian noted for his TV show USA Road Trip with his mother Ninette (7,6) 17 Another term for sculptures (8) 19 A likeness or figure of a person (6) 21 The heraldic bearings of a person, family or organisation (4,2,4) 22 Top ____ , long-running TV programme previously presented by Jeremy Clarkson and Matt LeBlanc (4) 23 An isotonic solution containing sodium chloride used as a plasma substitute (6) 24 Small-time criminals or gangsters (8)
DOWN
1 English singer/songwriter born in 1988 who was a member of the R&B/hip hop group N-Dubz (6) 2 Charlotte ____ , 1999 novel by Sebastian Faulks about a Scotswoman in wartime France (4) 3 A military body organised for overseeing a country’s defence and security in the skies (3,5) 4 A plant in the Allium family whose bulb has a pungent smell and strong taste (6) 5 Position of a footballer who plays in the middle of defence (6,4) 6 Standing or thrown from a horse as a jockey (8) 8 Landmark building at the eastern end of The Mall in London, designed by Aston Webb (9,4) 13 Describing traffic in a queue closely following one another (4,2,4) 15 Intelligent and sane (8) 16 A place of work not restricted to union labour (4,4) 18 ____ Stieglitz, U.S. photographer who married artist Georgia O’Keeffe (6) 20 ____ Swann, English former right-handed off-spinner born in 1979 (6) 22 The centre of an archery target (4)
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