GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
7 ____ Ferguson, U.S. singer-songwriter who was in soul music group The Three Degrees (6)
8 Carl, U.S. actor who plays golf pro Chubbs Peterson in 1996 comedy film Happy Gilmore (8)
9 One who paints works
of art on walls (8)
10 The sports stadium Croke
Park is in this capital city (6) 11 A Chinese practice of arranging things in living spaces to create balance with the natural world (4,4) 12 Greek god of the skies
who was the father of the Titans (6)
13 The time when a person
legally becomes an adult (6,2,3)
18 A person or group of people replacing others who have been on duty (6) 20 The middle name of Captain
James Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series (8)
22 Angela, the former
BBC newsreader who performed a memorable dance routine with Morecambe and Wise (6) 23 A coming onto the stage
by an actor (8)
24 Australian city in the state of Victoria that was at the
heart of the country’s 1850s Gold Rush (8)
25 A cover, usually made of canvas, to shelter e.g. a window from the sun or weather (6)
DOWN
1 English-born poet, born in 1907, whose works include Funeral Blues (Stop All The Clocks) (1,1,5)
2 Joe, U.S. baseball player nicknamed The Yankee Clipper, who was Marilyn Monroe’s second husband (8)
3 A social outcast (6)
4 A metal fastening that can be locked around a wrist (8)
5 A morbid and usually irrational fear of or aversion to something (6) 6 ____ And Cressida, play by William Shakespeare first published in 1609 (7)
8 Roman road in England that ran from Dover in Kent to Wroxeter in Shropshire (7,6)
14 Soldiers who are trained, armed and equipped to fight on foot (8)
15 ____ Greer, Australian writer and iconic feminist noted for her contrarian views (8)
16 Film director Guillermo del
Toro has this nationality (7) 17 Giacomo, Italian operatic composer who wrote the aria Nessun Dorma (7)
19 A medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa (6)
21 Fictional comic book hero whose enemies include Penguin and Poison Ivy (6)
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