GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
7 A plant with showy clusters of purple or orange flowers, nicknamed ‘butterfly bush’ (8)
9 ____ Westenra, the multi-platinum-selling New Zealand-born classical vocalist (6)
10 A tinned meat product
that is made mainly from pork (4)
11 A crowned one is the
official emblem of the UK Parliament (10)
12 ____ Meg, professional name of the British astrologer Margaret Lake, born in 1942 (6)
14 Lawless (8)
15 Traditional activity performed in rural England with bells and music (6,7)
17 The Caped ____, the nickname of comic book superhero Batman (8)
19 A small piece of bread or pastry with a savoury topping, served at formal parties (6)
21 Relating to organisation
and planning (10)
22 A stout-bodied freshwater
fish of the carp family (4) 23 Rugby ____, a shorter variant of the game that has been played at the Commonwealth Games since 1998 (6)
24 A person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land (8)
DOWN
1 Danny, former Liverpool
and Fulham midfielder (6)
2 ____ Gillen, the British actor who played
Liam Conroy in the TV sitcom Benidorm (4)
3 Amerigo, Italian-born merchant and explorer noted for his New World voyages (8)
4 A dance of Latin American origin that includes a hip-swaying shuffling movement (3-3)
5 A poll held in a parliamentary constituency after the sitting MP has resigned or died (2-8)
6 Shy or fond of being
on one’s own (8)
8 A derogatory term for an affectation of superiority (4,3,6)
13 Mechanical gates with revolving arms fixed to a post allowing one person to enter at a time (10)
15 A small tropical American monkey with a silky coat and a long tail (8)
16 Jack, U.S. ex-golfer who won the Open three times (8)
18 To loathe (6)
20 Dog that won Britain’s Got Talent in 2012 with trainer Ashleigh (6)
22 Educating ____, play by English dramatist Willy Russell that premiered in 1980 (4)
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