GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN

ACROSS

5 A dark blue dye obtained from a tropical plant of the pea family (6)

7 A native of a former state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea, dissolved in 1947 (8)

9 Melissa, U.S. actress who played Megan Price in the 2011 comedy film Bridesmaids (8)

10 Professional name of Artis Ivey Jr., late U.S. rapper noted for the 1995 song Gangsta’s Paradise (6) 11 Town in West Yorkshire that was the birthplace of rugby league in 1895 (12)

13 Of one mind, or operating

harmoniously (2,4)

15 Mix of cement, sand and water used to bond or cover bricks (6)

18 Synthpop song by Roxy Music, released

on their 1982 album Avalon (4,4,4)

21 Pat, U.S. author whose books The Prince Of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films (6) 22 An ornamental plume

of birds’ feathers (8)

23 Ancient trade route linking China with the Mediterranean Sea (4,4) 24 ____ Paige, English singer and actress who originated the role of Grizabella in Cats (6)

DOWN

1 The art or practice

of magic (8)

2 Graham, English manager who became head coach of Chelsea FC in September (6)

3 ____ disease, fungal illness spread by a bark beetle that first arose in the

UK in the 1920s (5,3)

4 Donny, U.S. singer and ex-teen idol born in Ogden, Utah in 1957 (6)

6 A work of art dealing with

the evening or night (8)

7 A particularly useful or

desirable result (3-3)

8 An imaginary line about

which a body rotates (4)

12 National cricket team who won the World

Cup in 1992 (8)

14 A small portable

bed for a baby (8)

16 Duke of ____, Scottish dynastic title of the heir to the British throne (8)

17 The ____, road in central London on which the Savoy Hotel stands (6)

18 Eddy, Belgian former cyclist born in 1945 nicknamed The Cannibal (6) 19 Acute and obtuse are examples of these spaces between two intersecting lines (6)

20 ____ Desert, arid region in northern China and southern Mongolia (4)