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

8 Major London thoroughfare on which The Dorchester Hotel stands (4,4) 9 A golf club with a metal or wooden head used to play the ball from the tee (6) 10 Stop-motion animated TV series largely set in the fictional village of Greendale (7,3) 11 U.S. ride-hailing app that derives its name from the German for ‘above all the rest’ (4) 12 _____ acid, found in the juice of lemons and limes (6) 14 Middle Eastern people whose official national currency is the shekel (8) 15 Paul, British-U.S. actor who played the tennis pro in the 2004 film Wimbledon (7) 17 A loan or payment made beforehand (7) 20 People interested or well-versed in books (8) 22 TV sitcom first shown in 2005 starring Ricky Gervais and Ashley Jensen (6) 24 To browse TV channels or the internet without a particular goal in mind (4) 25 Italian dessert made of a thickened sweet cream, often served with a caramel syrup (5,5) 27 A textile material (6) 28 _____ Theatre, venue in Sheffield of the World Snooker Championship since 1977 (8)

DOWN

1 Derek, actor who played the Duke of Windsor in the third series of The Crown (6) 2 A literary or artistic work of light satire or caricature (4) 3 Nationality of sprinter Usain Bolt (8) 4 U.S. city in which Elvis Presley’s home Graceland is located (7) 5 Principal figure in charge of a newspaper or magazine (6) 6 Lowest rank of commissioned officer in the Salvation Army (10) 7 A turnip-rooted variety of a salad vegetable of the Apium genus (8) 13 Ernest, New Zealand-born British physicist noted for his pioneering studies of radioactivity and the atom (10) 16 An injection of anaesthetic during childbirth to produce a loss of sensation below the waist (8) 18 Father of Icarus in Greek mythology (8) 19 Neil, Welsh politician who led the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992 (7) 21 _____ ratio, the proportion of width to height on a TV or cinema screen (6) 23 _____ The Hun, fifth century leader of an ancient nomadic people in central and eastern Europe (6) 26 Fictional dog in the comic strip Garfield (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW