GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Crossing, two tunnels and road bridge for traffic across the Thames (8) 9 _ _ _ _ _ _ Franklin, soul singer who sang My Country, ‘Tis Of Thee at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration (6) 10 Diana, English actress who played Olenna Tyrell in the TV series Game Of Thrones (4) 11 Motor sport that uses the so-called ‘Christmas tree’ light starting system (4,6) 12 National capital of The Bahamas, originally called Charles Town (6) 14 Lesley, English actress who played the couturier’s sister in the 2017 film Phantom Thread (8) 15 Term for a person or project that has only short-lived success (5,2,3,3) 17 The act of seizing territory in an opportunistic or unlawful manner (4,4) 19 _ _ _ _ _ _ Gates, English singer/songwriter and runner-up on the first series of Pop Idol in 2002 (6) 21 Motorway traffic system in which one carriageway hosts two-way traffic (10) 22 Tyson, English heavyweight boxer born in 1988 nicknamed Gypsy King (4) 23 A young salmon on its first return from salt water (6) 24 A tooth on the rim of a wheel for engaging a chain (8)
DOWN
1 A berthing area for yachts (6) 2 A person who applies for shares in order to sell them quickly for a profit (4) 3 An event such as occurred in the Klondike in north-western Canada in the late 1890s (4,4) 4 Former title of the senior nursing officer in charge of nursing staff in a hospital (6) 5 A 19th-century merchant sailing vessel designed for speed (3,7) 6 Seaside resort on Sandown Bay in the Isle of Wight (8) 8 Another name for the foxglove (4,4,5) 13 A complete stop or impasse (10) 15 In particle physics, quarks can be classified into six of these (8) 16 A tightrope stretched very high above the ground (4,4) 18 Grim _ _ _ _ _ _ , personification of death typically as a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe (6) 20 Alex, lead vocalist and principal songwriter of rock band Arctic Monkeys (6) 22 The exposed area of a mine where work is conducted (4)
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