GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
8 German composer best known for his
1936 composition Carmina Burana (4,4)
9 Element whose atoms are
found in a buckyball (6)
10 A wide strip of fabric worn
around the neck (6)
11 Third studio album by Crowded House, released in 1991 (8)
12 Alejandro, Argentinian winger who joined Manchester United FC in 2020 (8)
13 A girl’s name of Norse origin meaning ‘divinely beautiful’ (6)
14 Branch of Islam whose holy cities include Karbala and Najaf in Iraq (4)
16 ____ Marner, novel about a humble weaver by George Eliot (5)
17 Chief magistrate in the former republics of Venice and Genoa (4)
18 Gary, Take That singer whose first solo UK No. 1 was Forever Love (6)
20 To evoke images, memories
and emotions (8)
23 A place where secret
work is done (8)
24 ____ Street, road in Roman Britain that ran from London to York (6)
25 Energy stored chemically for
conversion into electricity (6) 26 To move to a new place in order to establish a home or business (8)
DOWN
1 Ornamental catkin-bearing evergreen shrub, also known as the silk tassel bush (6)
2 Central European country that includes Lake Bled (8)
3 Someone professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art (6)
4 For ____, 1967 spaghetti Western starring Clint Eastwood as a bounty hunter (1,3,7,4)
5 Performers in a circus such as trapeze artists (8)
6 A financial gain (6)
7 The illegal hunting and catching of game and fish (8)
15 Native American leader in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (8)
16 An informal term for a
doctor or surgeon (8) 17 The science of the motion of bodies and action of forces with them (8)
19 Los Angeles NBA
team founded in 1947 (6) 21 Sister of Blanche in Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire (6)
22 Musical direction to hold a note for its full length (6)
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