GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
5 Lesley, English actress who played Dorien Green in the TV sitcom Birds
Of A Feather (6)
7 Bill, Scottish actor who played Ned Gowan in historical series Outlander (8)
9 A determination of
punishment given by a court or judge (8)
10 Louisa May, U.S. author who wrote the novel Little Women, which was published in 1868-69 (6)
11 One who studies
marine resources and technology (12)
13 Time-travel device on TV series Doctor Who that is larger on the inside than the outside (6)
15 A laugh that is loud
or boisterous (6)
18 Song by Take That
performed at the
2012 London Summer Olympics closing ceremony (4,3,5)
21 Spa town in Derbyshire on the edge of the Peak District National Park (6) 22 The only one of the Great Lakes that lies wholly within the U.S. (8)
23 A continuation of a man’s hairline in front of his ears, named after a U.S. Civil
War general (8)
24 A tall, slender, silkyhaired breed of dog originally bred in the Fertile Crescent (6)
DOWN
1 ____ Hills, a range of elevated ground southwest of Edinburgh in Scotland (8) 2 Polytheistic religion in which spiritual beings called kami are worshipped (6)
3 Activity outlawed by the eighth of the
Ten Commandments (8)
4 Bertolt, the German playwright who wrote the text of The Threepenny Opera (6)
6 A top, final layer of paint
or similar covering (8)
7 Carbolic acid used as a
powerful disinfectant (6)
8 A formal declaration invoking God or another authority as witness to the truth of a statement (4)
12 In the right ____ , expression meaning ‘fairly accurate’ (8)
14 Element named after the Greek moon goddess that exists as a silvery metal or red powder (8)
16 A fleet of boats or
small vessels (8)
17 The fertilising organ of
a flowering plant (6)
18 ____ apple, informal term
for a corrupt person (6)
19 A tax on certain home commodities or on licences for certain trades (6)
20 ____ Perry, TV presenter born in 1970, noted for covering motor sports (4)
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