GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Character known as Black Widow played by Scarlett Johansson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (7,8) 8 A yacht or boat race meeting (7) 9 A small boring tool (7) 10 Irene, female character who appears in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal In Bohemia (5) 11 A container in which lettuce, tomato, cucumber and similar ingredients are served (5,4) 12 Kelsey, U.S. actor who played psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane in sitcoms Cheers and Frasier (7) 14 Michael, English comedian who played Soviet politician Molotov in the 2017 film The Death Of Stalin (5) 15 South American people who ruled an empire covering the Andean highlands (5) 17 A film or play that uses singing and dancing in the story (7) 19 A yellow, semi-hard Swiss cheese made from cow’s milk (9) 22 To praise highly (5) 23 A phrase meaning

‘completely spoiled’ (2,5) 24 Benjamin, British composer noted for his War Requiem that premiered in 1962 (7) 25 Those who study the distribution, effects and causes of diseases in populations (15)

DOWN

1 Former Manchester United footballer who was the youngest person to score in a FA Cup Final in 1983 (6,9) 2 This language and English have official status in the Philippines (7) 3 The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , BritishIrish girl group formed in 2007 whose members included Frankie Bridge and Una Healy (9) 4 Richard, English author who created the fictional rabbits Fiver and Bigwig (5) 5 A prize or payment (5) 6 Expression meaning ‘having continual success’ (2,1,4) 7 British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean whose capital is Port Stanley (8,7) 9 Tennis player Victoria Azarenka is a native of this country (7) 13 Beale Street, the home of blues music, is in this U.S. city (7) 14 The stationing of strikers around a workplace to dissuade others from entering (9) 16 World War I battle on the Western Front in 1917 which saw the first effective large-scale use of tanks (7) 18 Technical term for understatement (7) 20 Ingenuous or innocent (5) 21 A malicious defamatory publication or statement (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW