GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
5 A type of fast, repetitive
electronic dance music (6) 7 Alfie, Jewish gang leader played by Tom Hardy in TV drama series Peaky Blinders (8) 9 Having an unhealthy interest
in sexual matters (8) 10 Alan, British codebreaker whose portrait is on the new polymer £50 note issued in 2021 (6) 11 A medium-sized dog breed with a silky, usually black and white coat, used as a sheepdog (6,6) 13 To look after a domestic animal while its owner is away, often staying in the owner’s home (3-3) 15 ____ Mauresmo, French former tennis player and one-time coach of Andy Murray (6) 18 Kenilworth Castle is in this
historic English county (12) 21 A theatrical performance of formalised dancing with set steps (6) 22 Intermittent or
occasional (8) 23 TV medical drama series whose longest running character is Charlie Fairhead (8) 24 A young cow (6)
DOWN
1 Parlour game in which one team acts out syllables of a word to be guessed by another (8) 2 An affected or
pretentious person (6) 3 A group of small, usually
military ships (8) 4 To issue or come out (6) 6 Soft, rounded fleshy parts at the bottom of humans’ hearing organs (8) 7 Chris, English former Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea FC striker turned radio football pundit (6) 8 The normal number of months in a human pregnancy (4) 12 A severe throbbing
headache (8) 14 A device or pedal in a motor vehicle that affects the amount of fuel entering the engine (8) 16 African country that contains the Semien Mountains National Park (8) 17 A place where grape-based alcoholic drinks are made (6) 18 The ____ and the Carpenter, narrative poem by Lewis Carroll first published in 1871 (6) 19 Rosalind, English actress who played Horrible Grandma in TV sitcom Friday Night Dinner (6) 20 Lady ____ , professional name of U.S. singer/ songwriter who duetted with Ariana Grande on the 2020 single Rain On Me (4)