GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
5 Sara, English comedienne who replaced Joe Lycett
as The Great British Sewing Bee host (6)
7 The period when e.g.
dinner is served (8)
9 ‘Eternal sunshine of the ___ mind!’, line from Alexander Pope’s Eloisa To Abelard (8)
10 Kiss Me ___, 1955 film noir based on a Mickey Spillane novel (6)
11 French-born sculptor of wax figures who founded a museum in central London in 1835 (5,7)
13 A combination of two things, especially companies, into one (6) 15 Give work to and usually
pay in return (6)
18 Canadian jazz and soul singer noted for his 2009 song Haven’t Met You Yet (7,5)
21 The Japanese art of growing ornamental varieties of shrubs and trees in pots (6)
22 ____ sickness, illness after an ascent on mountains caused by shortage of oxygen (8)
23 Mario, Italian-born U.S. racing driver who was the Formula One World Champion in 1978 (8)
24 A small triangular bone at the base of the spinal column in humans (6)
DOWN
1 Severely critical or
witheringly scornful (8)
2 A person appointed to administer a state if the monarch is a minor, absent or incapacitated (6)
3 A pig of a white lop-eared breed that was originally bred in Denmark (8)
4 A single thin length of e.g. fibre, thread or wire, that is often twisted with others (6) 6 U.S. multinational technology company that owns Google (8)
7 Application of something
to a bad purpose (6)
8 A sauce made with chilli and chocolate and served with meat dishes in Mexican cuisine (4)
12 Doc ____, U.S. gambler and dentist who fought in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (8) 14 Written or printed statements acknowledging that something has been paid for (8)
16 A soft mass of material, usually of herbs etc, that is put on the body to relieve inflammation (8)
17 U.S. state that competes as a country in professional surfing (6)
18 Stephen King novel about
a writer’s obsessive fan (6)
19 The ____, nickname shared by Oldham Athletic and Wigan Athletic FCs (6)
20 Evangelist often represented
in art with an eagle (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW