GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
7 ____ Fanning, U.S. actress who starred in the 2005 sci-fi film War
Of The Worlds (6)
8 Spanish city at the foot
of Mount Benacantil (8)
9 Not representative of a
type, group or class (8)
10 ____ Rockefeller,
U.S. politician who served as Gerald Ford’s vice president (6)
11 Acting as an assistant carrying clubs for a golfer (8)
12 Arch-enemy of Mario in the video games series (6)
13 Large bedrooms for a number of people in a school or institution (11) 18 ____ web, a network of filaments of dark matter that may form the basis of the universe (6)
20 The first version of a film or TV programme after preliminary editing (5,3) 22 Pete, U.S. folk singer and social activist born in 1919 (6)
23 Samuel de Champlain was a noted French one (8)
24 A fee paid in advance to someone to secure their services for use when required (8)
25 A partially dried grape (6)
DOWN
1 Eric, fictional character voiced by Trey Parker in the animated sitcom South Park (7)
2 Prince of Aragon in Shakespeare’s play Much Ado
About Nothing (3,5)
3 A Chinese martial art also known as shadow boxing (3,3)
4 A bright red mineral of mercury sulphide used as a pigment (8)
5 Jean, U.S. actress born in 1911, nicknamed the Blonde Bombshell (6)
6 The ____, U.S. rock band whose lead vocalist is Julian Casablancas (7)
8 Another name for
an avocado (9,4)
14 A dance performed with exaggerated hip motion to a fast Latin rhythm (8)
15 African country that contains the Danakil Depression salt desert (8) 16 ____ In Blue Jeans, 1979
hit for Neil Diamond (7)
17 Portuguese striker who scored the most goals in the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England (7)
19 Member of the predominant ethnic group of Hungary (6)
21 Chair ____, official who
oversees a tennis match (6) SOLUTION TOMORROW