GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

PLAY our accumulator game! Every day this week, solve the crossword to find the letter in the pink circle. On Friday, we’ll provide instructions to submit your five-letter word for your chance to win a luxury Cross pen. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. Terms apply. Entries cost 50p.

ACROSS

1 A stage beyond which nothing more can be accepted (10,5)

8 Meat from a deer (7)

9 Love In The Time Of ____, novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7)

10 Nine Inch ____, rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1988 (5)

11 This vegetable is fried in the dish spaghetti alla nerano (9)

12 Len, Strictly Come Dancing judge who opened his own dance academy in 1973 (7) 14 One who rides on and is in

general charge of a train (5)

15 Queen Of ____, nickname of retail consultant Mary Portas (5)

17 Tim, tennis player who was runner-up at the 1988 Summer Olympics (7)

19 Douglas, actor and producer dubbed the ‘King Of Hollywood’ during the 1920s (9)

22 ____ Goldmann, a founder and president of the World Jewish Congress (5)

23 Informal term for dismissal from a job (5-2)

24 A hat with a high crown worn by cowboys in the U.S. (7)

25 Those who study a branch of philosophy dealing with knowledge (15)

DOWN

1 Song by Queen that reached No. 10 in the UK charts in 1974 (5,4,2,4)

2 ____ Norgay, mountaineer who climbed Everest with Edmund Hillary (7)

3 Devices used in electric circuits for protection or current control (9)

4 A medicinal substance to give a feeling of vigour or well-being (5)

5 A pointed part at the end of a fork (5)

6 Principle of ____, another name for Newton’s first law of motion (7)

7 Official items such as passports to allow crossing of borders (6,9)

9 A spicy condiment of Indian origin made of fruit or vegetables (7)

13 ____ Mori, the latest album by electronic band Depeche Mode, released in 2023 (7)

14 Johannes, German craftsman who invented the printing press (9)

16 The crane and masu box are among shapes created in this Japanese art (7)

18 Greek city that is the setting of The Comedy Of Errors (7)

20 ____ Hoberman, entrepreneur who was a co-founder of lastminute.com (5)

21 A fibre used in ropes or for matting (5)

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