GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A whip with knotted lashes, once used in the army and navy (3-1-4-5) 8 Fifth studio album by The Beatles released in 1965 (4) 9 Evangelista, Florentine physicist noted for inventing the mercury barometer (10) 10 Country that won the FIFA World Cup for the fifth time in 2002 (6) 11 Term for the aftereffects of drinking alcohol (8) 12 Violent weather disturbance in a severe winter (9) 14 Long narrow runners fastened to the foot for moving over snow (4) 15 Small rib in a leaf (4) 16 A periodic change in the behaviour and physiology of many animals and plants (9) 20 A horned ruminant animal related to goats and cattle (8) 21 The brightest star in the night sky also called the Dog Star (6) 23 Someone living with another or others (10) 24 Qatar’s capital (4) 25 Colloquial term for being

in good health (4,3,6)

DOWN

1 A V-shaped band on the sleeve, often worn in the military (7) 2 Precious stone, a silicate of aluminium and fluorine (5) 3 A short annotation or letter (7) 4 Constituent part of the United Kingdom whose highest peak is Slieve Donard (8,7) 5 ____ Woodall, British fashion expert who worked with Susannah Constantine on makeover series What Not To Wear (6) 6 Indoor sport played with a puck (3,6) 7 Peter, actor who played Inspector Clouseau in the 1963 film The Pink Panther (7) 13 Jack, English comedian and presenter who has hosted the BRITs since 2018 (9) 15 Vincent, Dutch painter noted for his series of still life paintings Sunflowers (3,4) 17 A knot of radiating loops of ribbon worn as a sign of affiliation or awarded as a prize (7) 18 Charles, three-time Taoiseach born in 1925 (7) 19 Controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov first published in 1955 (6) 22 Winona, US actress who plays Joyce Byers in the sci-fi TV series Stranger Things (5)