GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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7 A light, loose upper garment worn by women resembling a shirt (6) 8 A room or building for the temporary storage of dead bodies before burial or cremation (8) 9 One who specialises in the
study of plants (8) 10 A soft felt hat with a narrow brim and indented crown (6) 11 European capital that is called the ‘Daughter of the Baltic’ (8) 12 Foldable mattresses of
Japanese design (6) 13 Stage musical about dancers on Broadway with music by Marvin Hamlisch that opened in 1975 (1,6,4) 18 A mollusc with an open tent-shaped shell that adheres tightly to rocks as a resting-place (6) 20 The food of the gods in
Greek mythology (8) 22 The main tent of
a circus (3,3) 23 A particular example or occurrence of something (8) 24 Group number of the noble gases on the periodic table (8) 25 Tom, U.S. author who wrote the 2000 novel The Bear And The Dragon (6)
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1 A medium-sized white crusty loaf, glazed and notched at the top (7) 2 ____ World, 2015 sci-fi action film starring Chris Pratt as dinosaur expert Owen Grady (8) 3 A body of three to six thousand soldiers in ancient Rome (6) 4 ____ Dead, U.S. former rock band whose lead vocalist and guitarist was Jerry Garcia (8) 5 ____ balcony, a very shallow one with a safety railing on an upper storey of a building (6) 6 Chicago ____ , daily
U.S. newspaper founded in 1847 (7) 8 Formal enrolment into a
college or university (13) 14 One of eight children from
a single pregnancy (8) 15 Relating to newborn
humans or animals (8) 16 Fred, French maître d’hôtel and matchmaker in the TV reality show First Dates (7) 17 Tom, British cyclist who won gold in the men’s mountain bike crosscountry at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo (7) 19 Irregular or
inconsistent in form (6) 21 To cut into two parts (6)
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