GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

7 Militant African nationalist movement that originated in Kenya in the 1950s (3,3)

8 Thin French loaf whose name comes from the Italian for ‘little stick’ (8)

9 A unit of atmospheric

pressure (8)

10 ____ Keys, U.S. singersongwriter noted for her debut single

Fallin’ in 2001 (6)

11 Musician whose three elder brothers formed the Bee Gees (4,4)

12 Playa del ____, holiday resort on the island of Gran Canaria (6)

13 Sector of informal commercial activity unaccounted for in official statistics (4,7)

18 Mayim, U.S. actress who played Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory (6) 20 A ruler who possesses unrestricted and absolute authority (8)

22 A printing method in which the impression is made onto another surface before paper (6)

23 Conjunctivitis and uveitis are these relating to the eyes (8)

24 ____ and development or R&D, work of a department within a large company (8) 25 Song by Fleetwood Mac that featured on their 1977 studio album Rumours (6)

DOWN

1 ____ Trench, a deep-sea depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean (7)

2 An organisation or person

supplying jobs (8)

3 Indian city that is the centre of the Bollywood film industry (6)

4 Relating to the

cultivation of land (8)

5 ____ machine, device for household use first produced by Isaac Singer in the 19th century (6)

6 George, French-born U.S. literary critic noted for his work on language and the Holocaust (7)

8 U.S. songwriter and pianist born in 1928, who collaborated with lyricist Hal David (4,9)

14 A Japanese dish of chicken pieces grilled on a skewer (8)

15 ____ sky, one dappled with rows of small white fleecy, typically cirrocumulus clouds (8)

16 Oprah, U.S. talk show host who formed her own cable channel network (7) 17 An activity pursued in

one’s spare time (7)

19 Anton, English actor who plays Harold Macmillan in the second season of The Crown (6)

21 City in central Spain nicknamed the City of the Three Cultures (6)

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