GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

SOLUTION TOMORROW

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ACROSS

7 Roof of the mouth (6) 8 Julie, Doctor Zhivago actress (8) 9 Tennis player Grigor Dimitrov is from here (8) 10 _____ jubilee, 25th anniversary (6) 11 British monarch’s private residence in Aberdeenshire (8) 12 Smallest of Jupiter’s Galilean moons (6) 13 Waterlilies French impressionist painter (6,5) 18 English county town on the River Wear (6) 20 Popular novels in semi-rural middle-class settings (3,5) 22 Powerful spotted wild cat from the Americas (6) 23 One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest novelist (3,5) 24 Julie, Bet Lynch actress in Coronation Street (8) 25 ____ the Tank Engine, fictional steam locomotive (6)

DOWN

1 Istari’s leader in The Lord Of The Rings (7) 2 Fictional enemy of the Smurfs (8) 3 Tom, The Elements U.S. songwriter and humorist (6) 4 The Tempest’s protagonist (8) 5 Attendant of horses at an inn (6) 6 Large-scale collisions of motor vehicles (4-3) 8 U.S. jazz saxophonist nicknamed Yardbird (7,6) 14 Expensive or high-quality (8) 15 Argentinian First Lady, champion of the poor (3,5) 16 Superintendent in a museum or art gallery (7) 17 ____ Treaty, signed in 1929 between Italy and The Vatican (7) 19 Beagles are small types of these dogs (6) 21 Steve, detective played by Martin Compston in Line Of Duty (6)