GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Impulsive or done without

planning in advance (4,2,3,6) 8 ____ Party, the name of the Greens in the UK before 1985 (7)

9 A graduated glass tube for delivering known volumes of a liquid (7)

10 A cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob (5)

11 ____ Port, town on the southeastern edge of the Wirral peninsula (9)

12 A recently born child

or other mammal (7)

14 Oil and gas field in the North Sea northeast of the Shetland Islands (5)

15 Lake in the Sierra Nevada, the next-largest lake of the U.S. by volume after the Great Lakes (5)

17 One who has a sensitivity or aversion to gluten in their diet (7)

19 Unbiased or non-partisan (9) 22 ____ Triomphe,

Paris monument completed in 1836 (3,2)

23 A person opposed to new technology or ways of working (7)

24 Johannes, Dutch painter born in 1632 noted for his domestic scenes (7)

25 A facility by which firms reimburse employees for work-related outlay (8,7)

DOWN

1 1929 animated short film considered as Mickey Mouse’s debut (9,6)

2 An idealistic social

reformer (7)

3 A depletion in the stratospheric layer over the Antarctic (5,4) 4 A herb of the

mint family (5)

5 Fictional giant humanoids with muscular bodies and large heads (5)

6 ____ Fishing With Robson Green, TV entertainment show airing 2008-11 (7)

7 Dance music anthem by Urban Cookie Collective released in 1993 (3,3,3,6) 9 Song by Cher that was a UK No. 1 hit in 1998 (7)

13 A depository containing historical records and documents (7)

14 Miscellaneous articles

of little value (4-1-4)

16 In a very excited

state (5,2)

18 Jean, French artist, filmmaker and poet born in 1889 (7)

20 The period of rule

of a monarch (5)

21 ____ Drusilla, the wife of Roman emperor Augustus, born in

59 BC (5)

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