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

8 Japan’s emperor who acceded in 2019 (8) 9 Cease to flow (3,3) 10 Marcel, French novelist who died in 1922 (6) 11 Very thin kind of porcelain (8) 12 Siege ____ , vacant seat at King Arthur’s Round Table (8) 13 Fool’s ____ , fruitless enterprise (6) 14 Animal Hercules had to capture as a labour (11,4) 18 Set of rules at beginning of book or exam (6) 20 Eye of the Tiger U.S. rock band (8) 23 Moldova’s capital (8) 24 ____ Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender (6) 25 ____ school such as Eton or Harrow (6) 26 Type of petrol introduced in the UK in 1986 (8)

DOWN

1 1976 horror film starring Sissy Spacek (6) 2 Art movement begun in 1909 by Filippo Marinetti (8) 3 Space probe that studied Halley’s comet (6) 4 Reference work with synonyms and antonyms first published in 1852 (6,9) 5 Irish town sacked by Cromwell in 1649 (8) 6 Part of flower that produces pollen (6) 7 Nation across the Palk Strait from India (3,5) 15 Preliminary version of a film (5,3) 16 Scaramanga’s diminutive aide in The Man with the Golden Gun (4,4) 17 Queen guitarist (5,3) 19 Steal cattle (6) 21 Barney, Fred Flintstone’s neighbour (6) 22 ____ Sacks, late British neurologist and author (6) SOLUTION TOMORROW