GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN SEE BELOW
ACROSS
1 An assembly of troops dispatched to receive a head of state (5,2,6)
8 The larva of an insect,
especially a beetle (4)
9 The space between two intersecting lines that is equal to ninety degrees (5,5) 10 ____ Anderson, Canadianborn actress and model who starred in Baywatch (6)
11 A piece of orchestral music, typically in one movement, on a descriptive theme (4,4) 12 ____ Essex, the first in a series of school-based documentaries later to visit Yorkshire and Cardiff (9)
14 ____ and needles, a tingling sensation usually in a limb recovering from numbness (4)
15 A bias towards a particular
person or subject (4)
16 Lack of equivalence between parts of something (9)
20 A body of water of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy (4,4)
21 Robert, U.S. novelist who created the character Jason Bourne (6) 23 Large funnel-shaped devices for amplifying and directing the voice (10)
24 ____ Islands, group that includes Inishmore in Galway Bay noted for their ancient sites (4)
25 Song covered by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya and Pink in musical film Moulin Rouge! (4,9)
DOWN
1 A wreath of flowers and leaves worn on the head or hung as a decoration (7)
2 To walk at a gentle,
relaxed pace (5)
3 Glen, English former darts player born in 1970 and nicknamed Duzza (7) 4 Expression meaning
‘to defend one’s interests’ (5,4,6)
5 ____ rating, standard measure of a fuel’s resistance to pre-ignition due to compression (6)
6 The technical term
for a wine lover (9)
7 Long, heavy waves of the sea that advance towards the shore (7)
13 Grover, U.S. president born in 1837, who served two non-consecutive terms of office (9)
15 ____ Pike, the highest
mountain in England (7) 17 ____ Rauch, the U.S. actress who played Bernadette in The
Big Bang Theory (7)
18 A slice of usually stuffed meat that is rolled and cooked (7)
19 City in western Germany that contains the German Mining Museum (6)
22 The goddess of hunting in
Roman mythology (5)
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