GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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 A police officer accompanying a person under arrest, in order to prevent escape (6)

7 Not ____ , TV sitcom starring Lee Mack and Sally Bretton that first aired in 2006 (5,3)

9 British diver and Olympic gold medallist who competed in I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2021 (5,3)

10 A circular bracelet worn on the arm or leg (6)

11 U.S. singer and film actor born in Hoboken in New Jersey in 1915 (5,7)

13 A frenzied female follower of the Greek god Dionysus (6)

15 A soft metal whose most common compound is table salt (6)

18 The first thorough survey of England conducted under King William I in 1086 (8,4)

21 A Malay skirt-like garment

for a man or woman (6)

22 Articulate or strongly expressive (8)

23 Megan Thee, U.S. rapper whose first studio album Good News was released in 2020 (8)

24 A measure of distance in a swimming race (6)

DOWN

1 To understand something, usually without people telling you about it (6,2)

2 Julia, U.S. actress who played Nicky Parsons in the Bourne film series (6)

3 A medical condition in which someone has an excess of sugar in their blood (8)

4 African country that contains the mountain gorilla sanctuary Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (6)

6 ____ to Heaven, song by rock band Led Zeppelin released in 1971 (8)

7 Baggy ____ , informal nickname given to Australia’s cricket team (6)

8 ____ customer, a hostile or dangerous person (4)

12 A type of sweet red wine flavoured with quinine, often drunk as an apéritif (8)

14 Joe, U.S. baseball player who was Marilyn Monroe’s second husband (8)

16 Kevin, Belgian midfielder who joined Manchester City FC in 2015 (2,6)

17 At the back of a ship or

other seagoing vessel (6)

18 A sort of pattern or picture usually scrawled when bored or distracted (6)

19 ____ Creed, U.S. boxer played by Carl Weathers in the first four Rocky films (6)

20 River on which the town of Totnes in Devon stands (4)

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