GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

PlAy our accumulator game! every day this week, solve the crossword to find the letter in the pink circle. On Friday, we’ll provide instructions to submit your five-letter word for your chance to win a luxury Cross pen. uK residents aged 18+, excl ni. terms apply. entries cost 50p.

ACROSS

1 The Norman Conquests playwright (4,9) 8 Longest river wholly in Spain (4) 9 Deign (10) 10 Eden, Chelsea and Belgium footballer (6) 11 Libertine (8) 12 _________ Cole, Tenko actress (9) 14 Bar parlour (4) 15 ____ Leith, cookery writer (4) 16 Property purchase tax (5,4) 20 Queensland’s state capital (8) 21 Female winged monster in Greek mythology (6) 23 Ornamental lighting fixture (10) 24 Northern Irish ‘El Beatle’ footballer (4) 25 Clair de Lune composer (6,7)

DOWN

1 1990 Booker Prize winning author (1,1,5) 2 Ancient Greek marketplace (5) 3 Idealised rural Greek area (7) 4 Elton John hit (6,2,3,4) 5 Every ______ You Take, The Police track (6) 6 _______ Melody, The Righteous Brothers’ song (9) 7 Chinese port on Yangtze river (7) 13 ‘The Smiling Assassin’ Chaser (4,5) 15 _______ victory, one that is too costly (7) 17 Northwest African region (7) 18 Russian revolutionary exiled to Mexico (7) 19 Worthless remnant (3,3) 22 Ian Rankin’s detective (5)