GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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7 Supersonic passenger-carrying airplane that entered commercial service in 1976 (8) 9 Northern French city where author Jules Verne lived for his last 34 years (6) 10 Main character and Wilma’s husband in The Flintstones (4) 11 Henry, English author who wrote Tarka the Otter (10) 12 1960 Hitchcock thriller that features Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins (6) 14 A place for removing impurities from metals, oil or sugar (8) 15 Actress who plays the title character in the TV crime drama Vera (6,7) 17 Fictional continent in which Game Of Thrones is mostly set (8) 19 Dry volcanic rock used as an abrasive in cleaning and polishing (6) 21 Prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, designated a UN World Heritage Site in 1986 (10) 22 Steffi, German tennis player who won seven Wimbledon women’s singles titles (4) 23 Philippe, French general who oversaw victory at Verdun in WWI and led the Vichy government in WWII (6) 24 Small biting or stinging fly that can suck blood and transmit malaria (8)

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1 Desmond, English zoologist and ethologist noted for his book The Naked Ape (6) 2 Chemical substance defined as a proton donor by Brønsted and Lowry (4) 3 Joan, US actress who starred with Bette Davis in the 1962 film What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (8) 4 Tax collected by a government on foreign imports (6) 5 English city that features the Balti Triangle (10) 6 Inhabitant of a Pyrenean principality whose official language is Catalan (8) 8 Traditional motto on the US coat of arms, meaning ‘out of many, one’ (1,8,4) 13 Racecourse in Gloucestershire that hosts an annual National Hunt festival in March (10) 15 Informal term for a short rest for physical recovery (8) 16 Coffee made by forcing steam or boiling water through ground beans (8) 18 A new arrangement or selection of pictures on display in a gallery (6) 20 ____ Man, TV show fronted by comedian Alan Carr (6) 22 Disorder caused by an excess of uric acid, once termed ‘The Rich Man’s Disease’ (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW