GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

7 Four-time Formula One world champion Alain Prost has this nationality (6)

8 A barrister or solicitor in

England who is appointed a part-time judge (8)

9 Intellectual or rarefied

in taste (8)

10 A shiny, silver metal discovered in 1803 whose name derives from the Greek for ‘smell’ (6)

11 From Tirana,

for example (8)

12 Grasp the ____, expression meaning ‘to set about an unpleasant task with firmness’ (6)

13 The highest title awarded to a chess player by the game’s governing body FIDE (11)

18 ____ girdle, a basin-shaped complex of bones in humans that connects the trunk and legs (6)

20 Save The ____, the charity co-founded by British social reformer Eglantyne Jebb in 1919 (8) 22 An ornamental Chinese fan-leaved tree that is considered holy in Japan (6)

23 A break between

the acts of a play (8)

24 Period worked in

addition to one’s normal working hours (8)

25 ____ Tautou, French actress who played the title character in the 2001 romcom film Amélie (6)

DOWN

1 Green duck puppet used by ventriloquist Keith Harris, named after a U.S. aviator (7) 2 Phrase meaning ‘in the act

of broadcasting’ (2,3,3)

3 Wands wreathed with ivy carried by the followers of the Roman god Bacchus (6)

4 _____ department, section of a company that deals with financial transactions and payments (8)

5 A statement or fixed sequence of characters on a computer screen offering set options (6)

6 A Mexican alcoholic drink that derives from the blue agave plant (7)

8 A piece of exercise equipment with oar-like handles and a sliding seat (6,7)

14 The death of body tissue due to disease, injury or failure of blood supply (8)

15 A city of fabulous riches sought by Spanish explorers in South America (2,6)

16 Song by Cher that was a

UK No. 1 hit in 1998 (7)

17 Independent school in Hampshire that was founded in 1893 (7)

19 An unexpected and often inexplicable change in a situation or person’s behaviour (6)

21 A shallow container for letters, documents etc at work requiring attention (2-4)

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