GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
7 ____ Flynn, English actor who played Bronn in the TV series Game of Thrones (6) 8 Set of tents or other shelters as a staging area for a mountaineering expedition (4,4) 9 A dog crossbred between a cocker spaniel and a miniature poodle (8) 10 ____ Dorries, MP who participated in I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in 2012 (6) 11 A sum of money given to holders of shares in a company (8) 12 Likenesses or representations of a person or thing (6) 13 A device that temporarily incapacitates a person through its sound and flash (4,7) 18 Yitzhak, Israeli politician who served twice as prime minister (6) 20 U.S. actor who played symbologist Robert Langdon in film adaptations of three Dan Brown novels (3,5) 22 ____ number, one indicating the anti-knocking properties of a motor or aviation fuel (6) 23 Anubis and Ra are among gods in this ancient mythology (8) 24 Subjects of an empire whose capital was Constantinople (8) 25 Related to horses (6)
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1 Andrés, Spanish classical guitarist born in 1893 (7) 2 A vehicle fitted with a pronged device in front for raising and carrying heavy goods (4-4) 3 Shirley, U.S. child film star of the 1930s who later served as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (6) 4 Paraguay’s capital (8) 5 North American Atlantic seaboard possessions of France in the 17th and 18th century (6) 6 David and Elizabeth, British fashion designers who made Princess Diana’s wedding dress (7) 8 Musical by Willy Russell about twins Eddie and Mickey first performed in 1981 (5,8) 14 An inhabitant of Scandinavia in ancient or medieval times (8) 15 A genus of flowers which includes carnations and pinks (8) 16 Sex And ____ , U.S. TV comedy drama series adapted from a book by Candace Bushnell (3,4) 17 European country whose national flag has one horizontal band of blue and one of yellow (7) 19 An area of grassland used for pasture (6) 21 Peter, British-born U.S. actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series (6)
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