GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN
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ACROSS
7 A traffic jam or standstill (8) 9 Worthless or of poor quality (6) 10 Ben, marooned sailor in Treasure Island (4) 11 Successful or having achieved one’s aim (4,3,3) 12 Sergio, Spanish golfer who won the 2017 U.S. Masters (6) 14 Term used in insurance for a natural event not predictable by human foresight (3,2,3) 15 British naturalist and author whose first book was entitled The Overloaded Ark (6,7) 17 Regular journeys between home and work (8) 19 John, U.S. author who published The Witches of Eastwick in 1984 (6) 21 Number of married years marked by a silver wedding anniversary (6-4) 22 Daniel, actor who played Sergeant Danny Waldron in the TV police procedural Line of Duty (4) 23 ____ Rouge, cabaret in Paris that had a red windmill on its roof (6) 24 Around 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere consists of this gas (8)
DOWN
1 A psychic injury, especially one caused by emotional shock (6) 2 ____ Hazard, Belgian footballer who played for Chelsea before joining Real Madrid (4) 3 To lay aside for an undetermined period (8) 4 ____ Broad, English rightarm seam bowler and leftarm batsman who made his Test debut in 2007 (6) 5 Agricultural area for growing rice (5,5) 6 A dark grey colour (8) 8 U.S. TV personality and entrepreneur who made her film debut in the 2008 film Disaster Movie (3,10) 13 Nickname of King Henry II because of the short cloak he wore (10) 15 Glorious ____ , summer flat racing horse festival held in West Sussex (8) 16 Casino gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a spinning horizontal wheel (8) 18 Painful or hard to bear (6) 20 John Maynard, English economist born in 1883 noted for his positive views on government spending (6) 22 Tranquility Base is a famous location on this astronomical body (4)
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