GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN SEE BELOW
ACROSS
7 ____ tongue, one’s native language (6) 8 Period between the original design or idea for a particular product and its actual production (4,4) 9 Comic ballet by French composer Léo Delibes whose lead character is Swanilda (8) 10 Smallville, the fictional town where Superman was raised, is in this U.S. state (6) 11 Pasta in the form of large, fluted tubes (8) 12 Something made up from materials previously used without any noticeable improvement (6) 13 ____ bake, the final challenge for competitors in The Great British Bake Off (11) 18 To carve or shape in some way stone or other materials (6) 20 ____ Life, eighth studio album by British rock band Coldplay released in 2019 (8) 22 National park in South Africa established in 1926 (6) 23 In a wise or sagacious fashion (8) 24 Scottish town west of Glasgow that became the first site of a dock on the River Clyde in 1711 (8) 25 Vincent, Draco Malfoy’s sidekick in the Harry Potter franchise (6)
DOWN
1 Character in The Lord of The Rings film trilogy played by Sean Bean (7) 2 A neck injury caused by a sharp forwards and backwards wrench in a vehicle collision (8) 3 ____ pad, scouring item made of wire wool filled with soap (6) 4 A painted cloth or curtain at the rear of a stage in a theatre (8) 5 An offensive odour (6) 6 A deadlock or stalemate (7) 8 Informal expression for an act whose consequences cannot be foreseen (4,2,3,4) 14 Song by Swedish group ABBA that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest (8) 15 Ra was the sun god in this ancient mythology (8) 16 Helen, late English actress who played the matriarch Aunt Polly in Peaky Blinders (7) 17 62 West ____ Street, fictional home in Wigan of the claymation duo Wallace and Gromit (7) 19 Another term for a lumberjack (6) 21 To lure or tempt (6)
SOLUTION TOMORROW