GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Antiquated or out of date (3,3) 8 A mixture of stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar baked until crisp (8) 9 Group of people leading the development of new ideas (8) 10 ____ whites, informal term for ‘very clean teeth’ (6) 11 Flavius, Jewish priest and historian born around AD 37 (8) 12 To chant (6) 13 British prime minister played in The Crown by Jeremy Northam (7,4) 18 ____ Shadow, model of luxury car first produced by RollsRoyce in 1965 (6) 20 To express or measure the amount of (8) 22 A winged angelic being in biblical tradition (6) 23 A passage separating seats in e.g. a theatre or church (8) 24 A rough calculation (8) 25 ____ Farhi, French fashion designer born in 1946 (6)

DOWN

1 ____ Little, actor who played Sheriff Bart in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles (7) 2 A kind of untanned leather with a rough granulated surface (8) 3 To fasten or join (something) (6) 4 Soft blackish mineral used in pencil leads, also historically called plumbago (8) 5 A very young child (6) 6 Jack, English goalkeeper who joined Rangers FC in 2023 (7) 8 ____ Garden, indoor arena in New York City that opened in 1968 (7,6) 14 A large deciduous tree with smooth grey bark yielding a hard white timber (8) 15 To lodge an attitude, habit etc. that is difficult to change (8) 16 Religion in which the Five Ks are physical symbols of faith (7) 17 Friendly or goodnatured (7) 19 ____ Islands, archipelago in the Caribbean Sea (6) 21 ____ Lupin, gentleman thief created by French writer Maurice Leblanc (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW