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.
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ACROSS
Rod with a cap of metal carried as a badge by some officials (8) 5 Jeremiah, miller who founded a mustard production factory in Norwich (6) 10 Small, long-haired dog originally bred in China (4,3) 11 Liverpool’s Brazilian goalkeeper (7) 12 A house made of sun-dried bricks (5) 13 Carved pillar put up by some Native American peoples as a cultural symbol (5,4) 14 Pretty Woman actress (5,7) 18 Gigantic, carnivorous lizard-hipped dinosaur from the Mid-Jurassic (12) 21 Inland body of water indenting central and eastern Canada (6,3) 23 James, English singer/songwriter who won the 2013
Mercury Prize (5) 24 International criminal body led by Blofeld in the James
Bond films and novels (7) 25 Someone who has been removed from a place of
danger (7) 26 Nathan, actor who plays Buster Smith in Hollyoaks (6) 27 _____ Putin, Russian president first elected in 2000 (8)
DOWN
1 ____ Sea, section of the Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand (6) 2 Strychnine is an example of this type of substance (6) 3 Completely or in maximum degree (2,3,4) 4 Ruined Cistercian monastery near Ripon founded in the 12th century (9,5) 6 ___ Wars, two 19th century conflicts between Western countries and China’s Qing dynasty (5) 7 U.S. president Harry S Truman’s home state (8) 8 ____ verse, whimsical poems usually for children associated with Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll (8) 9 Flower on a plant of the Campanula genus (10,4) 15 Murderous husband in a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (9) 16 Stress given to a word or phrase (8) 17 The condition of having advanced years (8) 19 Space totally empty of matter (6) 20 Another name for the ormer, a shell found in warm coastal waters (3-3) 22 Beyond the bounds of what is usual or proper (5)
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