CAN YOU CRACK MY TOPICAL QUIZ?
ACROSS 3. Draconian (5) 8. Answer (5) 10. Adult human female (5) 11. Vegetable (3) 12. Desert animal (5) 13. Very wicked person (7) 15. Discourage (5) 18. Hill (3) 19. Crave (6) 21. Say in passing (7) 22. Look lasciviously (4) 23. Car horn’s sound (4) 24. Wine merchant (7) 26. Catchword (6) 29. Rowing blade (3) 31. List of jurors, etc. (5) 32. Fundamental (7) 34. Tips up (5) 35. Male cat (3) 36. Notions (5) 37. Brimless cap (5) 38. Tantalise (5)
DOWN 1. Warehouse (5) 2. Coating for walls (7) 4. Slightly open (4) 5. European country (6) 6. Cavities (5) 7. Provide food (5) 9. Female swan (3) 12. Sure (7) 14. Unit of weight (3) 16. Italian river (5) 17. Harvests (5) 19. Medicos (7) 20. Firm grasp or embrace (5) 21. Fruit (5) 23. Scolds harshly (7) 24. Travelling case (6) 25. Horse (3) 27. Touches down (5) 28. Mean or intend (3,2) 30. Multiplied by (5) 32. Mr Redding, singer (4) 33. And not (3) 1. WHICH singing superstar fell down the stairs while crooning live at the Brit Awards last week? 2. WHICH taxpayer- owned bank has announced its paying out £ 421million in bonuses despite losing money for the last SEVEN years? 3. WHAT hated tax could be scrapped and replaced with a voluntary subscription model instead? 4. ACCORDING to witnesses, in what decade was Jimmy Savile ( left) first suspected of having sex with corpses? 5. WHOSE performance was largely muted out for TV viewers of the BRIT Awards because of the swearing content? 6. WHICH Premier League manager is under pressure after watching his team get thumped 1- 3 by Monaco in the Champions League? 7. WHAT have councillors in Scotland banned a lollipop man from giving schoolchildren? 8. SUPPLIES of what commidity has Russian president Vladimir Putin ( right) threatened to cut off to Europe? 9. WHAT does David Beckham claim that Sir Alex Ferguson forced him to shave off prior to a Wembley appearance for Manchester United? 10. WHAT hit 298,000 last year despite David Cameron’s incoming promise as Prime Minister to get it down to the “tens of thousands”?