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
7 Severe state of being poor (6) 8 Visible impression left on the ground by a horse’s leg (4,4) 9 Steve, English watch and clock expert on TV’s The Repair Shop (8) 10 A horizontal band of painted or sculpted decoration, usually on a wall near the ceiling (6) 11 Quick ____ , meaning of the initialism QR for the matrix bar code (8) 12 ____ Wilkes, character in Gone With The Wind played on film by English actor Leslie Howard (6) 13 A soft hat with two peaks, originally used for hunting (11) 18 An excursion in which people eat a meal in the open air (6)
20 A branch or derivative of anything (8) 22 Saint who was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 by King William II (6) 23 One who wanders from place to place without a home or job (8)
24 A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry (8)
25 TV sitcom in which Ricky Gervais played aspiring actor Andy Millman (6)
DOWN
1 Local government district in East Sussex that includes the market town of Uckfield (7) 2 A shop with branches in many places, especially one selling a specific type of product (8) 3 Large nonvenomous snake of Africa and South Asia, named after a serpent of Greek myth (6)
4 Novel by English author Hilary Mantel about Thomas Cromwell, published in 2009 (4,4) 5 Mischievous or inclined to do naughty things for fun (6) 6 Joe, U.S. heavyweight boxer who lost to Muhammad Ali in the Thrilla In Manila in 1975 (7) 8 U.S. president whose period in office included the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (7,6) 14 ____ Park, green space in London noted for its deer (8) 15 Articles displayed in public shows of works of art or commercial goods (8) 16 Neil, Welsh politician who led the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992 (7)
17 ____ transplant, a surgical procedure that is also known as keratoplasty, to restore vision (7) 19 Liam, actor who plays retired CIA operative Bryan Mills in the Taken film franchise (6) 21 U.S. hip hop group whose version of Killing Me Softly was a UK No. 1 hit in 1996 (6)