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

1 Fifth wife of King Henry VIII who was nicknamed The Rose Without A Thorn (9,6) 8 The national parliament

of Iceland (7) 9 Distraught with fear, anxiety or other emotion (7) 10 Type of miniature camera invented by German photographer Oscar Barnack, first sold in 1925 (5) 11 ____ devil, the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial (9) 12 ____ Flame, song by U.S. rock group The Bangles released in 1989 (7) 14 ____ Vista Social Club, group of Cuban musicians who featured in an Oscar-nominated 1999 documentary (5) 15 ____ Wharton, U.S. author noted for her novel The House Of Mirth published in 1905 (5) 17 An archbishop in charge

of a province in the Church of England (7) 19 A reversal or change

of direction (5-4) 22 The eighteenth letter in

the Greek alphabet (5) 23 ____ industry, collective term for cinemas, restaurants, sports facilities and the like (7) 24 One of the two official national languages of Kenya, along with English (7) 25 Phrase meaning ‘from

time to time’ (5,3,3,4)

DOWN

1 French army officer and statesman who founded his country’s Fifth Republic in 1958 (7,2,6) 2 Small, cheery-voiced

woodland birds (7) 3 ____ Olsen, U.S. actress who plays Wanda Maximoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (9) 4 A block of gold, silver or other metal, typically oblong in shape (5) 5 Barack, U.S. ex-president

whose memoir is entitled A Promised Land (5) 6 Fred, actor and dancer who starred in ten Hollywood musicals with Ginger Rogers (7) 7 The removal of dangerous substances, radioactivity or germs from an area or person (15) 9 Pasta that is spiral or

corkscrew shaped (7) 13 The only planet in our solar system that is never visible to the naked eye (7) 14 A musical ensemble whose instruments usually include a cornet, euphonium and bass trombone (5,4) 16 To admire or revere greatly or

treat as a god (7) 18 ____ breakfast, one that is cooked, usually including bacon, eggs and tomatoes (7) 20 Yours ____ , debut studio album by U.S. singer/ songwriter Ariana Grande, released in 2013 (5) 21 ____ Jenkins, character played

by Welsh actress Ruth Jones in Gavin & Stacey (5)

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