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

1 The ____, Motown vocal quartet whose lead vocalist was Levi Stubbs (4,4)

5 Children who are mischievous in a likeable or amusing way (6)

10 Musical first performed in 1966 that includes the songs Willkommen and Mein Herr (7)

11 A hit in baseball allowing the batter to make a complete circuit of the bases (4,3)

12 A pungent edible bulb whose UK varieties include Egyptian Walking and Electric (5)

13 Spa town in North Yorkshire that contains the Royal Pump Room Museum (9)

14 Average or mediocre (3-2-3-4)

18 Jedi Master who guided Luke Skywalker as a mentor in the Star Wars film series (3-3,6)

21 A cabin on the top level of a boat or ship used for navigation or accommodation (9)

23 ____ Vuitton, French fashion designer who founded a brand of leather goods (5)

24 To place someone in a position of authority, especially with ceremony (7)

25 Partick ____, Scottish football club that play home matches at Firhill Stadium (7)

26 A mainly brown and grey finch with a reddish breast and forehead (6)

27 Expression meaning ‘exactly on time’ (2,3,3)

DOWN

1 An element in the composition of anything, or in causing a certain result (6)

2 Region of Italy that includes the cities of Assisi and Orvieto (6)

3 Hairy spider whose species include Brazilian black and Rose hair (9)

4 A bedspread covered by small pieces of cloth in different colours, designs and textiles (9,5)

6 ____ Simmonite, character played by Bill Owen in Last Of The Summer Wine (5)

7 Wynton, jazz trumpeter and composer born in 1961 (8)

8 Silvery, spiny-finned fish found burrowing in seashore areas (4,4)

9 Actor who played Moses in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments (8,6)

15 To make a statement or story more interesting by adding extra details that are often untrue (9)

16 ____ ambassador, one who travels to different places to promote co-operation and friendship (8)

17 Relating to the scope of a bishop’s jurisdiction (8)

19 Pop punk band that embarked on the Pigs Can Fly Tour in 2016 (6)

20 ____ Lancaster, English cartoonist, stage designer and writer born in 1908 (6)

22 ____ ho!, a sailor’s traditional call to exertion (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW