GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Beatles song written by George Harrison that featured on their 1969 album Abbey Road (4,5,3,3) 8 Very heavy rainfall and a seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean (7) 9 The nut of the cultivated hazel (7) 10 Chris, English TV presenter and radio DJ who presented TFI Friday and The One Show (5) 11 Italian dish of very thin slices of raw or very rare beef (9) 12 A small wood or copse (7) 14 ____ Meir, Israel’s first female Prime Minister (5) 15 Bo, professional name of the US actress who starred in the 1979 comedy film 10 with Dudley Moore (5) 17 A castle chiefly in Germany or Austria (7) 19 To make out the meaning of or translate from another language (9) 22 A small, venomous snake (5) 23 In biological taxonomy, the division of lifeforms higher than a phylum (7) 24 Claudio, Italian football coach who managed Chelsea and Leicester City (7) 25 Miser who is the protagonist of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol (8,7)

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1 Crossed emblem of the former Soviet Union or of communism (6,3,6) 2 Raised platforms on which models parade when exhibiting clothes (7) 3 Thin implement usually of bone or wood used in Asian countries for conveying food to the mouth (9) 4 ____ Street Preachers, Welsh rock band formed in 1986 that included Richey Edwards (5) 5 A game played on a checkerboard of 256 squares (5) 6 A plate perforated with a design or lettering from which copies are made (7) 7 Compulsory enlistment in a country’s armed forces often during peacetime (8,7) 9 Bruce, English entertainer who co-presented Strictly Come Dancing from 2004 to 2013 (7) 13 A pet scheme or favourite remedy (7) 14 ____ Square, site of the US Embassy in London from 1938 to 2017 (9) 16 A group of people accompanying or in the service of a higher authority (7) 18 One with top authority usually in a military or political context (7) 20 A long, narrow area of high pressure in meteorology (5) 21 Small mountain lakes (5)