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 Debut single by Britney Spears released in 1999 (4,3,4,4)

8 An entrance (7)

9 ____ jar, one used in ancient Egypt to hold the entrails of embalmed bodies (7)

10 Playa d’en Bossa and San Antonio are holiday resorts on this island in the Balearics (5)

11 The ____ , murder mystery play by Agatha Christie that premiered in 1952 (9)

12 A shallow iron pan used for frying (7)

14 Fred Flintstone’s wife in The Flintstones (5)

15 ____ Drive, debut album of British soul pop duo Lighthouse Family released in 1995 (5)

17 Billy, U.S. actor who voiced Mike Wazowski in the 2001 animated comedy film Monsters, Inc (7)

19 An open-end collective investment fund using amounts of different securities (4,5)

22 ____ the Dragon, 1973 martial arts film starring Bruce Lee (5)

23 An electrical kitchen appliance for turning fruit or vegetables into liquid (7)

24 To consider carefully (5,2)

25 Those who make a scientific study of people, society and culture (15)

DOWN

1 Canada’s westernmost province whose capital is Victoria (7,8)

2 Nickname of West Bromwich Albion FC (7)

3 Game in which players remove ailments from a likeness of a patient using a pair of tweezers (9)

4 Surrey racecourse that first staged The Derby in 1780 (5)

5 ____ Els, South African golfer whose first Major was the U. S. Open in 1994 (5)

6 To endanger or put at risk (7)

7 Instruments for recording the electrical activity of the brain (15)

9 No ____ For Old Men, 2007 neo-Western thriller film directed by the Coen Brothers (7)

13 A special varnish put on wood or metal to make it shiny (7)

14 ____ Heights, novel by Emily Brontë featuring the brooding hero Heathcliff (9)

16 Distinguished or famous (7)

18 Light door locks opened from the outside with a key (7)

20 Elizabeth I was the last monarch of this English royal house (5)

21 A piece of absorbent cloth or paper for drying the body (5)

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