GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

7 Which acid is formed in sour milk? (6) 8 Which system of combat means “empty hand” in Japanese? (6) 10 What women’s loose cloak was worn from the late 17th Century? (7) 11 What wildlife pest is the Mustela erminea? (5) 12 What was lexicographer Webster’s first name? (4) 13 What is an official order or proclamation? (5) 17 What lightweight wood is popular with modellers? (5) 18 What is a tower or pit to store grain? (4) 22 Stradivari, Guarneri and which other Cremona family were renowned violin makers? (5) 23 What is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another? (7) 24/25 Who was the first ever singer to release a Greatest Hits album, in the charts for 9½ years from 1958? (6,6)

DOWN

1 What do Americans call maintenance paid to a former spouse? (7) 2 Which 1989 film depicts the Profumo Affair? (7) 3 Which northern sea duck is valued for its soft feathers? (5) 4 What cushion is kneeled on in church? (7) 5 What was Elvis Presley’s middle name? (5) 6 What are projections on a cogwheel? (5) 9 Which parliament of Germany succeeded the Reichstag? (9) 14 Which writer had a son named Christopher Robin? (1,1,5) 15 What form of government has two joint rulers? (7) 16 What was Taiwan formerly called? (7) 19 What instrument is the forte of Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks? (5) 20 Which French company led the filmmaking world in the early 1900s? (5) 21 Which elephant is the central character of books by Jean de Brunhoff? (5)