GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN

ACROSS

5 An old statute settling the weight, measure or price of anything (6) 7 An offence against the rules of conflict, such as the mistreatment of prisoners (3,5) 9 Liza, U.S. actress and singer who is the daughter of Judy Garland (8) 10 Whinnying sounds made

by horses (6) 11 A meat product known in the U.S. as a blood sausage (5,7) 13 Small, six-legged creature such as a beetle or butterfly (6) 15 ____ nerve, one that moves along the arm and supplies movement to the triceps at the back of the upper arm (6) 18 Through the ____ and What Alice Found There, fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll published in 1871 (7-5) 21 Lamont Marcell, Italian sprinter who won gold in the 100 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (6) 22 A plant that grows in coastal areas whose aromatic leaves are used in pickles (8) 23 A preliminary trip given to a new vehicle or vessel to test its performance (5,3) 24 Phil, Irish singer who was lead vocalist of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy (6)

DOWN

1 A small, ornamental turret, usually terminating in a pyramid or cone (8) 2 The fold of loose skin that

hangs from the throat of cattle (6) 3 The border of a country (8) 4 ____ Berlin, U.S. songwriter and composer born in 1888 whose songs included Puttin’ on the Ritz (6) 6 A former British coin

that was worth twelve pennies (8) 7 A bizarre or

eccentric figure (6) 8 A numerical scale of hardness to assess solids named after a German mineralogist (4) 12 The Vedas, historic Indian sacred texts, are written in this language (8) 14 Garments for the

lower body such as chinos or cords (8) 16 Miami ____ , U.S. football

team founded in 1965 (8) 17 Jocky, Scottish darts player

who was twice world champion in the 1980s (6) 18 A rough sponge-like piece of plant fibre used for scrubbing the body (6) 19 A bet or transaction

depending on chance (6) 20 Bert, U.S. actor who played the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (4)

SOLUTION TOMORROW