GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN
ACROSS
8 Melanie, Working Girl actress (8) 9 Informal name for the annual U.S. film awards first presented in 1929 (6) 10 Frédéric, Polish-born French composer and pianist (6) 11 Steve, British ex-rower and five-time Olympic gold medallist (8) 12 Red _____ , the equivalent of the Red Cross in Muslim countries (8) 13 Producing eggs (6) 14 Measure of land area approximately 4,047 square metres (4) 16 Dilapidated or run-down (5) 17 Object of study for a dendrologist (4) 18 Spanish ____ , fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain to invade England in 1588 (6) 20 Clint, Million Dollar Baby actor and director (8) 23 ______ Aniston, actress who played Rachel Green in Friends (8) 24 Humorous name for the Loch Ness monster (6) 25 U.S. city where JFK was assassinated in 1963 (6) 26 The Topkapi Palace is in this city (8)
DOWN
1 ____ Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes’s creator (6) 2 Skiing area away from prepared ski runs (3-5) 3 ____ Mouse, cartoon character and girlfriend of Mickey Mouse (6) 4 TV drama series about community nurses set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite (5,3,5,2) 5 British rock band founded in 1996 and fronted by Chris Martin (8) 6 Disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C (6) 7 Historical French region whose largest city is Marseille (8) 15 José, Spanish operatic tenor born in 1946 (8) 16 _____ sites, large-scale nighttime decoys created by Britain in WWII to simulate burning cities (8) 17 Andros, English football winger for Crystal Palace (8) 19 ____ Ridley, actor who played Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army (6) 21 The upper legislative chamber of the U.S. Congress (6) 22 Hateful or repulsive (6)
SOLUTION TOMORROW