GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Greg, Canadian-born British tennis player who was a finalist in the 1997 U.S. Open men’s singles (8) 9 Zimbabwe’s capital (6) 10 Hilary, English author whose The Mirror & The Light concluded her Thomas Cromwell trilogy (6) 11 A chronic disease of the nervous system, commonly accompanied by convulsive seizures (8) 12 Inland body of water to the north of Turkey (5,3) 13 Amanda, actress and TV presenter who has been a Britain’s Got Talent judge since 2007 (6) 14 The line behind which a darts player must stand when throwing at the board (4) 16 An intimate companion (5) 17 A pointed end or a toothlike ornament (4) 18 Eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge born in 2013 (6) 20 Gordon, British flat racing Champion Jockey in 26 seasons between 1925 and 1953 (8) 23 A stimulating drink with a reviving or invigorating effect (4-2-2) 24 ____ machine, encryption device used by the Germans in WWII to transmit coded messages (6) 25 The practice of cultivating artificially dwarfed trees (6) 26 Term in the U.S. for an aubergine (8)
DOWN
1 Robert, actor who played Lt Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (6) 2 A slender, flexible organ, especially in invertebrates, for feeling and touching (8) 3 Devotional songs or hymns (6) 4 Head of the camera and light crews on a film or TV production, responsible for the overall visual style (15) 5 Scottish cyclist who is Team GB’s joint most decorated Olympian with six gold medals (5,3) 6 George, pseudonym of Eric Blair, author of Homage to Catalonia (6) 7 The EU Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters are in this city (8) 15 A person or company to whom a debt is due (8) 16 A café or restaurant specialising in pancakes with
different fillings (8) 17 Technical name for the collarbone (8) 19 Dashing or jaunty (6) 21 Members of the priesthood collectively (6) 22 Byname of the character played by Claudine Auger in the
1965 Bond film Thunderball (6) SOLUTION TOMORROW