GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

PLAY our accumulator game! Every day this week, solve the crossword to find the letter in the pink circle. On Friday, we’ll provide instructions to submit your five-letter word for your chance to win a luxury Cross pen. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. Terms apply. Entries cost 50p.

ACROSS

8 Wicked or typifying a satanic figure (8)

9 Small passages of a lake, river or sea (6)

10 Town in Berkshire that was the setting of The Office (6)

11 A surgical cut made in skin or flesh (8)

12 The sickle shape of a waxing or waning moon (8)

13 Christian saint who had a shrine at Whithorn Priory in Scotland (6)

14 Crystal Palace FC’s home strip is in stripes of red and this colour (4)

16 A precious stone, usually yellowish-brown, that is a birthstone of November (5)

17 Twelfth studio album by Fleetwood Mac, released in 1979 (4)

18 ____ Goose, a prototype airlift flying boat that was created by U.S. aviator Howard Hughes (6)

20 Designs or pictures made on metal plate, glass etc. by the corrosive action of acid (8)

23 ____ Bob, alias of Robert Terwilliger, Bart’s archenemy in The Simpsons (8)

24 In an eager or enthusiastic manner (6)

25 Blood ____, narrow tube through which blood flows in the body (6)

26 Suburb in the London borough of Enfield that was the birthplace of Bruce Forsyth (8)

DOWN

1 Johannes, German astronomer who discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits (6)

2 ____ And The Banshees, postpunk band noted for their 1978 hit Hong Kong Garden (8)

3 A small, rounded fruit with a sweet, white scented flesh and a rough skin (6)

4 English architect and scientist whose tercentenary of death is being marked in 2023 (11,4)

5 A pair of eyeglasses with a nose clip instead of ear pieces (5-3)

6 ____ Steadman, actress known for her roles in TV play Abigail’s Party and films including Life Is Sweet (6)

7 Low padded seats without backs or arms, whose name shows their Turkish origin (8)

15 Asymmetrical or off balance (8)

16 The Squid And ____, Oscar-nominated 2006 comedy-drama by Noah Baumbach (3,5)

17 St ____, boarding school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle (8)

19 ‘____ lies the head that wears a crown’, line from the play Henry IV, Part Two (6)

21 Unpleasantly damp or sticky (6)

22 A unit of liquid volume that is equivalent to a ninth of a firkin in brewing (6)

SOLUTION TOMORROW