GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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play our new accumulator game! every day this week, solve the crossword to reveal the letter in the pink circle. On Friday we will provide details to submit your five-letter answer for your chance to win a luxury Cross ballpoint pen. Uk residents aged 18+, exc ni. terms apply. entries will cost 50p.

ACROSS

1 Carl Orff’s choral work (7,6) 8 Arsenal and German footballer (4) 9 Florida national park (10) 10 Main course of a meal (6) 11 Prison that opened in 1809 (8) 12 Comportment (9) 14 Venerable __ , Anglo-Saxon historian (4) 15 The Seven Year __ , Marilyn Monroe film (4) 16 Northeastern English region (9) 20 Capital of Syria (8) 21 Beauty abducted by Zeus as a bull (6) 23 Mountain straddling Switzerland and Italy (10) 24 ___ de grâce, a final blow (4) 25 The Theory of Everything actor (5,8)

DOWN

1 Mont Sainte-Victoire French painter (7) 2 Stationery item (5) 3 Encrustation on window from frost (3,4) 4 Macmillan’s successor as PM (4,7-4) 5 Giants’ abode in Norse mythology (6) 6 Device warning of danger (5,4) 7 Woodland plant (7) 13 The ___ Castle, Edith Nesbit children’s novel (9) 15 Muslim leader’s office (7) 17 Country bordering South China Sea (7) 18 Outermost planet in the solar system (7) 19 Gerald, English cartoonist and illustrator (6) 22 Sylvester Stallone film franchise (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW