GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A cold meal, including bread and cheese, typically with pickle and salad, served in a pub (10,5) 8 A frame that supports

climbing plants (7) 9 Cookie ____ , blue Muppet character on the children’s TV show Sesame Street (7) 10 Airey, Conservative politician who was the first British POW to escape from Colditz Castle (5) 11 Tom, English actor who plays Jonny Goodman in TV sitcom Friday Night Dinner (9) 12 ____ Adlington, British swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (7) 14 A device which connects a

computer to the internet (5) 15 Country whose national flag is a vertical tricolour of green, white and red (5) 17 A tricycle available for hire, with an attached seat for one or two passengers (7) 19 Thoroughbred horseracing and breeding operation founded by Sheikh Mohammed in 1992 (9) 22 A feeling of weariness

or languor (5) 23 Sci-fi film franchise about a cyborg law enforcer that began in 1987 (7) 24 A hard black substance rich in hydrocarbons, suitable for supplying domestic energy (3,4) 25 The practice or policy of avoiding involvement in a dispute between others (3-12)

DOWN

1 Phrase meaning ‘to indicate

precisely’ (3,4,6,2) 2 Alfresco (4-3) 3 A young male considered to be most successful or popular in a particular field (6,3) 4 A stingy or mean-spirited

person (5) 5 Vladimir, founder of the Soviet Communist Party born in 1870 (5) 6 Having cuts or nicks made

in it (7) 7 British Prime Minister who was the last to serve in World War One (6,9) 9 Colonel ____ , character in Cluedo whose head is mounted on a yellow pawn (7) 13 Slang term for a police

station (3,4) 14 Phil, golfer who became the oldest major winner after triumphing at the US PGA Championship in 2021 (9) 16 John James, US ornithologist who wrote the illustrated book The Birds of America (7) 18 US rock band formed in 1983 noted for the songs Always and It’s My Life (3,4) 20 Lord ____ , British aristocrat who disappeared in 1974 after his maid was killed (5) 21 Large desert region in

southern Israel (5)

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