GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 British actress who plays goth Nina Lucas in Coronation Street (6,9) 8 A muscle that turns a part of the body on its axis (7) 9 ____ lion, an endangered subspecies of wild cat that lives in the Indian state of Gujarat (7) 10 A frame on which clothes are dried (5) 11 A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged, causing breathlessness (9) 12 A cross-bred dog often used by poachers for catching hares and rabbits (7) 14 Having had one’s fill or more than one’s fill of something (5) 15 A type of tin-glazed earthenware typically decorated with blue designs on a white background (5) 17 A small deer of eastern Asia in which the male has tusks and short antlers (7) 19 Gaining admission or retrieving information from (9) 22 A German military submarine used during the two world wars (1-4) 23 A sumptuous entertainment of food and drink, now mostly ceremonial and followed by speeches (7) 24 ____ Waldron, young man played by Irish actor Paul Mescal in the TV adaptation of Normal People (7) 25 A branch of medical science to do with taking and analysing X-ray photographs of the brain (15)
DOWN
1 English author whose novel The Dark Flood Rises was published in 2016 (8,7) 2 A wrong letter in printed or typed material (7) 3 To translate into familiar or comprehensible terms (9) 4 A dark green bush with small yellow flowers and sharp prickles (5) 5 ____ Island, fictional beach town in the 1975 film Jaws (5) 6 A position of responsibility under public scrutiny, especially one in which difficulties are faced (3,4) 7 The original host of the TV game show Countdown (7,8) 9 A drug of salicyclic acid used for relieving pain (7) 13 One who composes religious or devotional songs (7) 14 First rover sent to the planet Mars launched by NASA in 1996 (9) 16 Expressing or using few words in speech (7) 18 A photograph taken near at hand and thus often detailed and big in scale (5-2) 20 One of three sticks that form with the bails a wicket in cricket (5) 21 A small, dull-coloured terrestrial lizard with adhesive toes (5)
SOLUTION TOMORROW