GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD SOLUTION TOMORROW

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5 ____ Need Is Love, song by The Beatles released in 1967 (3,3)

7 Steve, hooker in England’s 2003 World Cup-winning rugby union team (8)

9 The Laughing ____, portrait by Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals (8)

10 Professional name of British rapper born in 1995, noted for his TV cooking shows (3,3)

11 ____ Beast, the 1992 Disney animated film that includes the characters Gaston and Lumiere (6,3,3)

13 ____ Bear, children’s comic strip character whose friends include Freddie Fox (6)

15 A large, triangular bone at the base of the spine (6)

18 English cathedral city whose football team is nicknamed The Posh (12)

21 A window that projects vertically from a sloping roof (6)

22 The small or trifling details of something (8)

23 One of the four corner spaces on a standard UK Monopoly board (2,2,4)

24 Of time, to pass or go by (6)

DOWN

1 U.S. city in New York state named after a city in Sicily (8)

2 An insurrection, especially against military or naval authority (6)

3 The ____, Scottish mountains that are between 2,500ft and 3,000ft high (8)

4 Pinnacle; the highest point reached by a missile in a gravitational field (6)

6 To omit (5,3)

7 Alan, computer scientist played by Benedict Cumberbatch in 2014 film The Imitation Game (6)

8 Magnum ____, Latin expression meaning ‘a writer’s greatest work’ (4)

12 Of an accent, refined or upper-class (3,5)

14 An explanation of a subject, intended for private study (8)

16 Nationality of a person whose country’s official currency is the kuna (8)

17 Relating to an early stage in evolutionary development (6)

18 A small woollen ball attached to a garment, especially a hat, for decoration (6)

19 Sixteen of these constitute a pound in the avoirdupois weight system (6)

20 ____: A Star Wars Story, the second in the franchise’s anthology film series (4)