GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Argentine short story writer born in 1899 who pioneered the magic realism literary genre (5,4,6)
8 To fail to resist pressure, temptation or some other negative force (7)
9 ____ awareness, an understanding of the relationship between objects (7)
10 ____ home, a house that perfectly suits a particular occupant (5)
11 Wassily, Russian abstract painter born in 1866, whose work was inspired by music (9)
12 ____ Hoffs, singer, guitarist and co-founder of The Bangles (7)
14 Jason, actor who played Khal Drogo in Game
Of Thrones (5)
15 Word used to quell disruption, spoken e.g. by the Speaker of the House of Commons (5)
17 A thick, sticky dark syrup made from partly refined sugar (7)
19 A statement only partly accurate that is intended to mislead (4-5)
22 The part of a target in archery furthest from the bullseye (5)
23 To make mentally
unbalanced (7)
24 An injury caused by a numbing
blow to a lower limb (4,3)
25 A website and formerly weekly magazine with advertisements to sell cars, domestic items etc. (8,3,4)
DOWN
1 Stand-up comedian who played Spleen in the 2009 film Looking For Eric (6,9)
2 A disease of children caused
by vitamin D deficiency (7)
3 A goal that brings the score
level in a game of football (9) 4 Turkic language widely
spoken in central Asia (5)
5 A mammal of the giraffe family with stripes on its rump and legs (5)
6 Gil, forensic scientist played by William Petersen in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (7) 7 TV writer who created Last Tango In Halifax and Happy Valley (5,10)
9 City that is the capital
of New Mexico (5,2)
13 A small, carved toggle, often of ivory or wood, used as a fastener to a sash on a kimono (7)
14 Ramsay, Britain’s first Labour prime minister, who grew up in Lossiemouth in Scotland (9) 16 Relating to an oracle
of ancient Greece (7)
18 Adopted daughter raised by Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’s
Great Expectations (7)
20 ____ Chesham-Leigh, character played by Christine Baranski in the Mamma Mia! films (5)
21 ____ Gabler, play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen that premiered in 1891 (5)
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