GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Italian dessert meaning ‘pick me up’ (8) 9 County Armagh town (6) 10 The ______ Of Wrath, John Steinbeck novel (6) 11 Prairie province of Canada (8) 12 Galahad’s father in Arthurian legend (8) 13 Internet messages (1-5) 14 British PM during Profumo Affair (6,9) 18 Period before Christmas (6) 20 Italian art movement founded in 1909 (8) 23 Chinese art of interior design (4,4) 24 Island in New York’s East River (6) 25 ______ Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm author (6) 26 Japanese video game company (8)

DOWN

1 Ford model discontinued in 1993 (6) 2 Cold Spanish soup (8) 3 Rudolf, eponymous internal combustion engine inventor (6) 4 Dickens novel published in 1865 (3,6,6) 5 ________ Palace, Winston Churchill’s birthplace (8) 6 ______ Franklin, The Queen of Soul (6) 7 Spanish resort on the Costa del Sol (8) 15 Formula One world champion driver in 1978 (8) 16 The Flying ________, Richard Wagner opera (8) 17 Small parrot (8) 19 The Communist Manifesto co-author with Marx (6) 21 Alan, mathematician and computing pioneer (6) 22 Long pace (6)