GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Anglo-Irish novelist and dramatist born in 1728 noted for his novel The Vicar Of Wakefield (6,9) 8 Beth, British ex-gymnast who won bronze in the uneven bars at the 2012 London Summer Olympics (7) 9 Town in County Durham noted
for its former steelworks (7) 10 ____ Bow, U.S. actress of the silent film era born in 1905, who was called ‘The It Girl’ (5) 11 Informal term for a person who acts or moves in a sluggish way (9) 12 One, such as a porter or bouncer, who is on duty at the entrance to a large building (7) 14 The ____ , comic book hero noted for his speed, whose first alter ego was Jay Garrick (5) 15 Franz, Austro-Hungarian composer who wrote the operetta The Merry Widow (5) 17 English river that passes through Matlock and forms a tributary of the Trent (7) 19 ____ cord, tube that connects an unborn baby to its mother (9) 22 A slow, lazy way of speaking or an accent with prolonged vowel sounds (5) 23 A period of time between
one event and another (7) 24 ____ Monroe, U.S. actress who featured in a series of silkscreen paintings by Andy Warhol after her death (7) 25 ____ 2 U, signature song by Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor that was written by Prince (7,8)
DOWN
1 Something that deceives the eye by appearing to differ from reality (7,8) 2 Singer-songwriter Björk is
a native of this country (7) 3 Ship that carried Captain James Cook on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768 (9) 4 Sharon, U.S. actress who played Christine Cagney in TV police procedural series Cagney & Lacey (5) 5 ____ screwdriver, preferred gadget of the Doctor in Doctor Who (5) 6 The art of Japanese
flower arrangement (7) 7 Expression meaning ‘to become prominent in the news’ (3,3,9) 9 A singer, typically a male one, who sings sentimental songs in a soft, low voice (7) 13 A small quantity of a particular thing, usually something desirable or valuable (7) 14 A visit made by students or research workers to study something at first hand (5,4) 16 The natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism (7) 18 A large boat that uses a wide, cone-shaped net to catch fish (7) 20 The dreaded ____, facetious term for a fictitious, highly infectious disease, originating on The Goon Show (5) 21 A Caribbean dance in which a dancer bends backwards to pass under a horizontal bar (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW