GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Uniform ____, meaning of the initialism URL, or a web address (8,7) 8 William, Scottish shipping magnate and art collector (7) 9 The ability to understand and share the feelings of other people (7) 10 Describing a voice that is high or thin in tone (5) 11 An artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication (9) 12 One who has persistent difficulty discarding possessions (7) 14 Expressed clearly or is easy to understand (5) 15 A portable conical tent made of skins or cloth on a frame of poles (5) 17 Describing stockings or tights that have wide holes between their threads (7) 19 Short phrase meaning ‘fundamentally’ (2,7) 22 A length of thread or yarn, loosely coiled and knotted (5) 23 A machine with seats to transport people up a snow slope (3,4) 24 ____ Pursuit, board game created by Canadians Chris Haney and Scott Abbott (7) 25 Member of an itinerant group of people adopting an alternative lifestyle (3,3,9)
DOWN
1 English screen actor who played leading roles in Tenet and the Twilight films (6,9) 2 The shrill cry made by owls (7) 3 Expiry time put on a perishable food item (3-2,4) 4 The French luxury fashion house that was founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion (5) 5 A gambol or escapade (5) 6 British passenger ship captained by Edward Smith, that sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 (7) 7 Novelist and screenwriter noted for creating the private detective Philip Marlowe (7,8) 9 Goods or services sold to another country (7) 13 No longer existing or functioning (7) 14 An overwhelming victory in an election (9) 16 An advance showing to the public of a film (7) 18 Long-running TV police procedural series that finished in 2010 (3,4) 20 The professional name of the English singer-songwriter Gordon Sumner (5) 21 A background actor in a film (5)
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