GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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1 Informal term for brains or a person’s ability to think (6,4,5) 8 2016 sci-fi film starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner (7) 9 A card game that resembles rummy, using two packs (7) 10 ____ Pauling, scientist who won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace (5) 11 Album by The Beatles whose cover features the group on a zebra crossing (5,4) 12 Enduring pain and hardship without complaint (7) 14 A ship’s officer in charge of equipment and the crew (5) 15 Former term for a waitress in a Lyons teashop (5) 17 Chelsea, actress who played Gina Linetti in US sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine (7) 19 A type of dietary fat that is typically solid at room temperature (9) 22 Steve, country, rock and folk singer-songwriter born in 1955 (5) 23 ____ illusion, an image that deceives the eye through visual trickery (7) 24 Spanish luxury ham made from the meat of a black pig (7) 25 The fastest form of

shipping items (7,8)

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1 Lancashire righthanded batter who made his England Test debut in 2022 (4,11) 2 Cruel and oppressive

rulers (7) 3 1970 romantic drama film starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal (4,5) 4 Roman emperor who succeeded Nero in AD 68 (5) 5 Walled town in North Wales noted for its castle (5) 6 ____ In Love, song by Level 42 that was released in 1986 (7) 7 Expression meaning ‘to insist on the observance of formalities’ (5,2,8) 9 A person whose job is

mending shoes (7) 13 A building in the US in which a state legislature meets (7) 14 Mangosuthu, South African politician and Zulu prince, who died in September (9) 16 Penelope ____, Wacky

Races character (7) 18 The mother of

King Arthur (7) 20 Daniel, actor who played Ben Brockman in Outnumbered (5) 21 2011 film starring Ryan Gosling as a getaway driver (5)

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