GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
5 A dry red wine that comes from the northern Italian region of Piedmont (6) 7 ____ Boseman, U.S. actor who played singer James Brown in the 2014 film Get On Up (8) 9 Denise, presenter who regularly appears on Celebrity Gogglebox with partner Eddie Boxshall (3,5) 10 Truly, Madly, ____ , 1990 fantasy film starring Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman (6) 11 An arm of the Royal Navy whose motto is ‘Per Mare, Per Terram’ (5,7) 13 ____ Dantès. title character in Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Count Of Monte Cristo (6) 15 The Prado Museum is in
this European capital (6) 18 Another term for high
blood pressure (12) 21 A type of hot yoga performed in a room heated to a high temperature (6) 22 Brightly coloured pieces of cloth worn around a person’s head or neck (8) 23 Sharp narrow bends formed by barriers placed on a motor racing circuit (8) 24 Hyperion and Rhea are among the moons of this planet (6)
DOWN
1 U.S. state that contains the Great Sand Dunes National Park (8) 2 A tall narrow drum usually
played with the hands (3-3) 3 A medicine containing opium that was used in the past as a painkiller (8) 4 Short, high-pitched sounds
made by small birds (6) 6 A non-venomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake of South America that kills its prey by constriction (8) 7 Inside ____ , rugby union back who normally wears the number 12 jersey (6) 8 Nat King ____ , U.S. singer whose signature song was Unforgettable, released in 1951 (4) 12 The velociraptor was a
noted type of one (8) 14 A chemical in the brain that acts as a neurotransmitter (8) 16 Mild aversion or
repugnance (8) 17 Inducements of money
to do something (6) 18 ____ Slughorn, professor and potions master in the Harry Potter series (6) 19 ____ Shackleton, AngloIrish arctic explorer noted for his trek on the ship Endurance (6) 20 The white tissue lining
the rind of oranges (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW