GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Determined and unwavering (8)
9 John, U.S. singer-songwriter who co-wrote the song Glory for the 2015 film Selma (6)
10 ____ Island, largest one by surface area in Canada (6)
11 A brief, evocative description, account or episode (8)
12 ____ society, group that performs dramas set to music (8)
13 To establish gradually but firmly in a person’s mind (6)
14 An uncomfortable sensation on the skin (4)
16 William, captain on the ship HMS Bounty and victim of a mutiny (5)
17 Soft, pear-shaped fruit with sweet, dark flesh and many small seeds (4)
18 Son of the chief god Odin and his wife Frigg in Norse mythology (6)
20 Jack, Scottish presenter, actor and one-time TV chat show host born in 1962 (8)
23 Substances that remain after processes such as combustion or evaporation (8)
24 To confer holy orders on (6)
25 ____ in one’s madness, phrase meaning ‘logic for one’s actions despite seeming strange’ (6)
26 ____ Hill, English crime writer who created detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe (8)
DOWN
1 To abscond or leave a place suddenly (6)
2 Suburb of Newcastle in which Greggs bakery first opened a shop in 1951 (8)
3 Alastair, English journalist who was one of the original presenters of ITV’s News At Ten (6)
4 A business, such as tourism, that offers intangible benefits for its customers (7,8)
5 Inactive or slowmoving (8)
6 Departure or exit (6)
7 ____ Goes, 1934 musical set on a luxury liner with music and lyrics by Cole Porter (8)
15 Horizontal bars hung from ropes used by acrobats in a circus (8)
16 Duke of ____, small orange brown butterfly found on grassland and woodland clearings (8)
17 Noel, English actor and comedian who won the fourth series of Taskmaster (8)
19 ____ D. Eisenhower, U.S. president who preceded John F. Kennedy (6)
21 A bird of the crow family that typically frequents mountains and sea cliffs (6)
22 Tests of the efficacy and safety of drugs before official approval for general use (6)