GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 A sailor qualified to act as captain of a merchant ship (6,7) 8 A silvery-white metal with a blue tinge, mined principally in China and Australia (4) 9 Involving strange, unknown forces that cannot be explained by scientific laws (10) 10 Bill, U.S. travel and science writer noted for his 1995 book Notes From A Small Island (6) 11 Pastis is a traditional
French one (8) 12 A young man who works
looking after horses (6,3) 14 A game in which a player selects a visible object for others to guess based on its first letter (1-3) 15 A florin is an old
British one (4) 16 Cricket ground on which Brian Lara became the first batsman to score 500 runs in a first-class innings (9) 20 Town in west Tyrone in
Northern Ireland (8) 21 An ingredient with sugar and egg in the sweet paste marzipan (6) 23 A place where people pay to use machines to wash and dry their clothes (10) 24 The soft, lower part of
the ear (4) 25 Software systems that seek and identify items on databases, used especially on the internet (6,7)
DOWN
1 Fictional French detective played on screen by Michael Gambon and Rowan Atkinson (7) 2 Andrew, British actor who played hapless Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (5) 3 A laying out of money (7) 4 A set of tools used to prepare cooking ingredients by crushing and grinding them (6,3,6) 5 A warden of a national
or state park or forest (6) 6 Metamorphosis of ____ , 1937 painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali based on a Greek myth (9) 7 ____ television, a genre in which ordinary people are filmed, such as Love Island (7) 13 Rule, ____ !, patriotic song set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740 (9) 15 A short sword with a curved blade, formerly used in the navy (7) 17 Ozwald, British fashion designer of Ghanaian descent born in 1967 (7) 18 A set of consecutive episodes, e.g. of a soap opera, broadcast as a single programme (7) 19 A manufactured cloth
or textile (6) 22 1998 animated musical adventure film about the daughter of a Chinese warrior (5)