GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

5 To direct one’s hopes towards achieving something (6)

7 Actor who played Robert Baratheon in Game Of Thrones (4,4)

9 A grey, corrosion-resistant form of bronze that contains zinc (8)

10 Dirty ____, underhand activities in political affairs often to discredit an opponent (6)

11 Choreographer who replaced David Walliams as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent in 2023 (5,7)

13 A final disclosure of information in a film or TV programme previously kept from viewers (6)

15 ____ Society, social democratic think tank affiliated to the Labour Party, set up in 1884 (6)

18 Body of water in central Africa that is the chief reservoir of the River Nile (4,8)

21 Plain or characteristic

of the countryside (6)

22 Board members given control of an amount of money or property for a charity (8)

23 _____ spaniel, a breed of gun dog traditionally used for flushing and retrieving game (8)

24 Barrett, late singersongwriter who performed Motown’s first hit Money (That’s What I Want) (6)

DOWN

1 Costume jewellery or fabric decorated with glass cut to resemble precious stones (8) 2 Song by Michael Jackson

from the album Thriller (4,2) 3 A vehicle so badly damaged that it is not worth repairing (5-3)

4 ____ sticker, collectable

image of a footballer (6)

6 Bushy-tailed rodent that has two species in the UK, the red and the grey (8)

7 Edward, narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle’s science fiction novel The Lost World (6)

8 Private university in

Durham, North Carolina (4) 12 ____ moons, largest four of Jupiter, first seen by an Italian astronomer in 1609-10 (8)

14 Comic book superhero who formed a crime-fighting duo with Iron Fist (4,4)

16 Doses of a vaccine that increase or renew the effect of an earlier one (8)

17 An image to represent a person in an online game, chat room etc. (6)

18 A deep yellow pigment found in leaves of plants and in egg yolk (6)

19 Julee, singer-songwriter whose 1989 song Falling was the theme tune of Twin Peaks (6)

20 To turn away a passenger because an airline has allowed too many seats to be booked (4)