GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
5 Roman J ____, Esq., 2017 legal drama film starring Denzel Washington in the title role (6) 7 A category of typeface without decorative feet at the end of strokes (8) 9 An electrically powered machine for cutting grass in places inaccessible to a mower (8) 10 Ferenc, Hungarian footballer after whom FIFA named an annual award for the scorer of the most beautiful goal that year (6) 11 Song by U2 released in 2000 on their studio album All That You Can’t Leave Behind (9,3) 13 Peter Paul, Flemish artist born in 1577 and noted for his sensuous Baroque paintings (6) 15 Andy, English actor who played Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars film series (6) 18 One who specialises in the study or treatment of the heart and its diseases (12) 21 A small, usually sweet, sponge cake, baked in a cup-shaped container (6) 22 Metallic element added to stainless steel to increase its resistance to corrosion (8) 23 Asian language that uses hiragana as its most common syllabic script (8) 24 Martina, Swiss former tennis player who won the 1997 women’s singles title at Wimbledon (6)
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1 Annual music festival held near Southwold in Suffolk that began in 2006 (8) 2 A school’s former pupils or students (6) 3 Expression meaning ‘extremely’ or ‘emphatically’ (2,6) 4 River on which Liverpool stands (6) 6 Lists of dishes of a prescribed number of courses at a fixed price, typically limited to a few options (3,5) 7 ____ of Turin, length of linen purported to be the burial garment of Jesus Christ (6) 8 The Azadi Tower, a monument built to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, is in this country (4) 12 U.S. battleship on which Japan signed its declaration of surrender at the end of World War II in 1945 (8) 14 ____ Bell, character played by Idris Elba in the U.S. TV crime drama series The Wire (8) 16 A large permanent unit within an army (8) 17 A plane figure that is divided into 360 equal degrees (6) 18 A long-sleeved garment, reaching to the ankles and often tied with a sash, worn in the Middle East (6) 19 A fast sailing vessel rigged in Chinese fashion but with a European-style hull (6) 20 The bee hummingbird, the world’s smallest bird, is native to this island (4)