GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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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

1 Phrase meaning ‘incidentally’ or ‘in passing’ (2,3,3)

5 ____ robin, a pink-flowered plant growing on marshy ground, with tattylooking petals (6)

10 ____ Moody, pure-blood wizard with a magical eye in Harry Potter (7)

11 A delivery in cricket that is slow in the air and pitches short, giving the batter an easy hit (4,3)

12 ____ Of The Century, third studio album by Supertramp, released in 1974 (5)

13 Funding allocated to initiate a project (4,5)

14 Largest city in New Zealand’s South Island (12)

18 Conjectural; only existing as an idea (12)

21 Ex-central defender for Arsenal FC who won 66 caps for England (4,5)

23 Neal, founder and lead guitarist of the band Journey born in 1954 (5)

24 To supervise, especially in an official capacity (7)

25 An area with a particular type of natural environment (7)

26 Describing food, or the premises where it is sold, that satisfies Jewish dietary laws (6)

27 Money paid regularly at a particular rate for the use of money lent (8)

DOWN

1 To make white or pale by extracting colour (6)

2 ____ hero, protagonist in a play such as Hamlet (6)

3 A leap in ballet in which a dancer repeatedly crosses his or her own feet (9)

4 National park in northern England that includes Malham Cove and Aysgarth Falls (9,5)

6 Term for a formerly French-governed part of Indochina whose name means ‘Pacified South’ (5)

7 To suffer without havingsufficient food to eat (2,6)

8 Paintings, especially altarpieces, made of two parts usually joined by hinges (8)

9 Originator of the theory of relativity, who won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics (6,8)

15 Marker put at one end of a grave with the name of the person who has died (9)

16 Max, British gymnast who has won six Olympic medals (8)

17 The ____, names shared by a U.S. R&B vocal group formed in 1954 and an English folk group formed in 1958 (8)

19 A ceremonial chair for a monarch, bishop or similar figure (6)

20 A Highland midge is an example of one in Scotland (6)

22 A passage between cabinets or shelves of goods in a supermarket (5)

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