GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD SUDOKU X

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

8 A lover, usually in an illicit sense (8) 9 Marcel Duchamp’s readymade sculpture, Fountain, is one (6) 10 Captain Marvel actress in Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame (4,6) 11 Jimmy, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown host (4) 12 Sister ___, U.S. group formed in 1971 noted for We Are Family (6) 14 In golf, a shot from the fairway designed to reach the putting green (8) 15 _____ Benjamin, 1980 comedy film starring Goldie Hawn (7) 17 A tone in music that is neither sharp nor flat (7) 20 Australian city dubbed The Golden City in the 1850s Gold Rush (8) 22 Keanu, Neo actor in The Matrix (6) 24 ___ & Dave, British rockney pioneers (4) 25 U.S. inventor of the cotton gin (3,7) 27 Elvis Presley’s birthplace (6) 28 You’ll Never Walk Alone is a song from this musical (8)

DOWN

1 Unit of measurement in the oil industry (6) 2 Sadio, Senegalese forward for Liverpool (4) 3 Helmeted bounty hunter hired by Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy (4,4) 4 Billy, When Harry Met Sally... actor (7) 5 Round root vegetable with greenish white skin (6) 6 English electronic music duo comprising Howard and Guy Lawrence (10) 7 ____ Hodge, actress who played Penny in Miranda (8) 13 Craig Charles’s role in Red Dwarf (4,6) 16 To try to establish friendly relations (5,3) 18 Kilmarnock is in this historic Scottish county (8) 19 Elaine, U.S. stage actress and singer who starred in Noel Coward’s Sail Away (7) 21 Southern African antelope (6) 23 Number worn by the left wing in a rugby union team (6) 26 A shallow oval basket for carrying garden tools or flowers (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW