GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Jewish Festival of Lights (8) 9 Ancient Greek source of prophecy (6) 10 Inhibition (4-2) 11 U.S. state nicknamed Prairie (8) 12 Tony Blair’s second Home Secretary (8) 13 Stand-in (6) 14 Schindler’s List director (6,9) 18 Bradley, American Sniper actor (6) 20 The ____ , 1973 horror film (8) 23 Humorous poem of two short couplets (8) 24 ___ Paige, West End’s original Evita (6) 25 Rest for snooker cue (6) 26 Play interval (4’4)

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1 Key Largo actress (6) 2 Fathers and Sons novelist (8) 3 North Macedonia’s capital (6) 4 St Paul’s Cathedral architect (11,4) 5 ‘Silent Cal’ U.S. president (8) 6 Brief sleep (6) 7 Covered arcade in monastery (8) 15 Phineas Finn novelist (8) 16 Aurora Borealis or ___ lights (8) 17 Casino card game (8) 19 Procession (6) 21 Mafia code of silence (6) 22 Solo instrument composition (6)