GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Crazy Little ____, song by Queen released in 1979 (5,6,4)
8 Land area comprising the world’s first and sixth largest continents by land mass (7)
9 Landlocked African country nicknamed the Kingdom In The Sky (7)
10 ___ Joliot-Curie, French scientist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband (5)
11 John, Colombian-born U.S. actor and comedian noted for his one-man stage shows (9)
12 Phrase meaning ‘facing a situation of not knowing what will happen’ (2,5)
14 An Indian cold drink made with yoghurt or buttermilk (5)
15 A storey in a building (5)
17 Book in the Old Testament that includes the story of Noah and the flood (7)
19 A word that is spelt the same as another but has a different sound and meaning (9)
22 A long piece of wood (5)
23 ____ Moses, U.S. folk artist born in 1860, who began painting at the age of 78 (7) 24 The activity of reading postings in an online forum without actively contributing (7)
25 Marine animal with a bulbous forehead that drops sharply to the base of its beak (10,5)
DOWN
1 A talent or propensity
for talking (3,4,2,3,3)
2 The nationality of the former tennis doubles specialist Andy Ram (7)
3 One who zealously teaches or professes faith in the teaching of Jesus (9) 4 Of no ____, lacking in
benefit or value (5)
5 Kiran, Indian author whose novel The Inheritance Of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize (5) 6 Wanted criminals or
fugitives from justice (7)
7 One who leaves their own country in search of better job prospects and higher living standards (8,7)
9 A small hardy breed
of chicken (7)
13 A dark reddishpurple colour (7)
14 A further, often minor difficulty after a series of others that makes a situation unbearable (4,5) 16 U.S. hip hop duo of Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton (7)
18 The ability to sustain prolonged mental and physical effort (7)
20 ____ Mount, family home of poet William Wordsworth in the Lake District (5)
21 Alannah, Canadian singersongwriter noted for her 1990 song Black Velvet (5)
SOLUTION TOMORROW