GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

5 Laurence, English poet noted for his poem For The Fallen (6) 7 Cloak with a hood and wide sleeves worn in North Africa and the Middle East (8) 9 A murmuration is the collective noun for this bird (8) 10 ______ Drake, protagonist of the Uncharted video games series (6) 11 U.S. football position several yards to the side of an offensive formation (4,8) 13 John, Being John Malkovich actor (6) 15 To move in a gliding or ostentatious way (6) 18 Tenable presenter (7,5) 21 Surname of Billy Bunter’s form master (6) 22 A radioactive element, the heaviest in the halogen group (8) 23 Arthurian knight who reputedly threw back Excalibur into the lake (8) 24 Stephen was the last such King of England (6)

DOWN

1 An ancient Hindu system of medicine (8) 2 Imprudent (6) 3 1980 Grand National winning racehorse (3,5) 4 Christian, Heathers actor (6) 6 To excite the curiosity or interest of (8) 7 UK shipping forecast area in the North Sea named after a large sandbank (6) 8 Slang term for a schoolmaster or magistrate (4) 12 An estate or country house in Spain and its ex-colonies (8) 14 Irvin, The Empire Strikes Back director (8) 16 John, actor who played Roger Sterling in Mad Men (8) 17 Musical direction meaning in a lively manner (6) 18 David, Scottish genre and portrait painter and court painter to William IV (6) 19 Long single-edged sword used by the samurai (6) 20 Saint Vitus’s Day occurs on the 15th of this month (4)

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