WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN
ACROSS
1 Cuban athlete who set the world record for the high jump in 1993 (6,9) 8 A common, low-growing evergreen shrub that grows in carpet-like thickets (7) 9 Ninth month of the Islamic calendar for fasting between dawn and sunset (7) 10 A hurt caused by a laceration of body tissues produced by a bullet or other weapon (5) 11 Daniel, oil prospector played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood (9) 12 One of three children at a
birth (7) 14 Song by British singer/ songwriter Amy Winehouse from her 2006 album Back to Black (5) 15 To rub out or obliterate (5) 17 Smoke and ____ , misleading information serving to obscure the truth of a situation (7) 19 Gyles, broadcaster and comedian who wrote the royal biography Philip: The Final Portrait published in 2021 (9) 22 A sweet-smelling spice used
in Indian cooking (5) 23 Heaven Is a Place ____ , song by U.S. singer Belinda Carlisle released in 1987 (2,5) 24 A person who exhibits a dog
at a show or trial (7) 25 A butterfly with dusky orange and brown chequered wing colours found in southern England (5,10)
DOWN
1 U.S. actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC in 1865 (4,6,5) 2 An elevated structure by which a road or railway is carried over a valley or river (7) 3 An alkaloid drug used to relieve asthma and hay fever (9) 4 ____ merchant, a person who deals in discarded metal (5) 5 A steel sculpture of a giant
spider created by FrenchU.S. artist Louise Bourgeois (5) 6 A vernacular language used by Jewish people from Central and Eastern Europe (7) 7 Wind and solar power are examples of this natural resource (9,6) 9 Informal term for a very hot
day (7) 13 ____ Palace, the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury (7) 14 The passage in a tooth’s base through which nerves and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity (4,5) 16 A public walkway in Spanishspeaking countries, shaded with trees (7) 18 African country that contains the contiguous continent’s easternmost point (7) 20 ____ Vader, character in the original Star Wars trilogy played by David Prowse (5) 21 A pair of foot-operated cymbals forming part of a drum kit (2-3)
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