GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
5 An instance of hurried
or careless writing (6) 7 Jamaican rapper and
singer born in 1973 (4,4) 9 One who teaches at a college or university (8)
10 ____ Belt, doughnutshaped region of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune (6)
11 ULEZ, acronym meaning Ultra
Low _____, for an area in London to tackle pollution (8,4)
13 A root vegetable with a white, tapering taproot (6)
15 Contests in which cowboys show their skills at riding (6)
18 Staffordshire region in which china and earthenware industries are based (3,9)
21 Stage name of magician Steven Frayne, born in 1982 (6) 22 A video in which a person’s face or body has been digitally manipulated (8)
23 Wife of Philip II of Macedonia and the mother of Alexander the Great (8)
24 ____ to go, phrase meaning ‘very eager to start’ (6)
DOWN
1 Biased in favour of a
particular cause (8)
2 Jacob, actor who played Noah Flynn in The Kissing Booth film trilogy (6)
3 Achieved by using indirect or dishonest means (4,4)
4 To connect a rope by interweaving the strands at the end (6)
6 A small pitcher for serving thick liquid taken from milk (5,3)
7 ____ vest, underwear
with large holes (6)
8 Describing a second-hand or pre-owned car (4)
12 Battleship ____, 1920s silent Soviet film about a mutiny by sailors (8)
14 South Africa’s administrative capital, named after a Boer statesman (8)
16 Kent town that is the birthplace of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (8)
17 Mildly derogatory term
for groups of people (6)
18 A deeply distressing or
disturbing experience (6) 19 The ____ Of Everything, 2015 biopic starring Eddie Redmayne (6)
20 ____ Berkovic, Israeli ex-footballer who played for West Ham United from 1997-99 (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW