GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 ____ towers, circular forts for coastal defence built in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8) 9 Herbert, U.S. president in office at the time of the 1929 Wall Street Crash (6) 10 La Isla ____ , UK No 1 hit for Madonna in 1987 (6) 11 Gaseous element which combines with hydrogen to produce ammonia (8) 12 A temporary shelter dug in very wintry conditions (4,4) 13 Flash ____ , sci-fi comic-strip hero whose enemy was Ming the Merciless (6) 14 A word game in which one guesses objects in view, whose names begin with a certain letter of the alphabet (1,3) 16 A tight-fisted person (5) 17 U.S. entertainer who played Ruby Sheridan in the 2018 musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (4) 18 Bubba, American golfer who won the U.S. Masters in 2012 and 2014 (6) 20 Children’s game in which participants take turns in vaulting each other (8) 23 Scribblings or drawings, often humorous or indecent, found on public buildings (8) 24 ____ crunch, a severe reduction in lending by banks and other financial institutions (6) 25 Henry, British actor who played Superman in the 2013 film Man Of Steel (6) 26 An addition to a book or document containing explanatory material (8)
DOWN
1 An area of water separated from the sea by coral reefs or earth or sand banks (6) 2 Henry E., German-U.S. craftsman who founded a piano manufacturing company in 1853 (8) 3 Texas city straddling the Rio Grande on the Mexican border and nicknamed Sun City (2,4) 4 English snooker player nicknamed The Rocket because of his rapid playing style (6,9) 5 Poem by William Blake published in 1794 (3,5) 6 In bridge and some other card games, a high scoring or trump card (6) 7 ____ Pitstop, character in Wacky Races who drove a pink car called Compact Pussycat (8) 15 ____ To Heaven, song by Led Zeppelin released in 1971 (8) 16 A jaw or jawbone (8) 17 Alkaloid stimulant that occurs naturally in tea, coffee and cocoa (8) 19 Element attached to the end of a word to form an entirely new one (6) 21 To receive or take on board (6) 22 On The ____ Of Species, book by naturalist Charles Darwin published in 1859 (6)
SOLUTION TOMORROW
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