GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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Play our accumulator game! Every day this week, solve the crossword to find the letter in the pink circle. On Friday, we’ll provide instructions to submit your five-letter word for your chance to win a luxury Cross pen. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. Terms apply. Entries cost 50p

ACROSS

5 Fictitious grey female kangaroo which starred in a 1960s Australian TV series (6)

7 Capable of using fluent or expressive language (8)

9 One who is devoted to the welfare of others (8)

10 Billie, U.S. singer/songwriter who sings the theme song for the 2021 Bond film No Time To Die (6)

11 Annual occasion on which the Queen addresses the nation in a TV broadcast (9,3)

13 Raymond, English illustrator who created the children’s picture book The Snowman (6)

15 A short-legged, herbivorous marsupial that is native to Australia (6)

18 I Love ____ , song by British graphic designer LadBaby that was UK Christmas No 1 in 2019 (7,5)

21 ____ Turner, Del Boy’s longtime girlfriend played by Tessa Peake-Jones in Only Fools And Horses (6)

22 ____ Di Prima, Italian dancer and choreographer who joined Strictly in 2018 (8)

23 Bob, Ebenezer Scrooge’s clerk in Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol (8)

24 Diane, character in Emmerdale played by English actress Elizabeth Estensen (6)

DOWN

1 ____ Lisbon, Portuguese football club that was founded in 1906 (8)

2 A clerical worker employed usually in the past to use a keyboard for writing letters etc. (6)

3 A variety of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet green flesh (8)

4 Kay, English broadcaster born in Wigan in 1960 (6)

6 The second largest desert in Africa (8)

7 To lure into doing something compromising or incriminating (6)

8 Follow one’s ___ , to take the obvious or instinctive course (4)

12 A way of speaking or using words, especially one common to a social or professional group (8)

14 Making the sound of something soft and wet when pressed (8)

16 Ropes, chains, cables etc. by which a boat or other vessel is secured in a particular place (8)

17 A kind of cord made from the intestines of sheep and other animals used for violin strings (6)

18 Showy performances or turns designed to attract publicity (6)

19 Of time, to pass (6)

20 Jimmy, London-born stand-up comedian whose autobiography Before & Laughter was published in 2021 (4)