GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN

ACROSS

7 Moving or touching (8) 9 The second book in the Old Testament (6) 10 Gorden ____, English actor who played French cafe owner Rene Artois in the TV sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo! (4) 11 The last such event in Britain took place on June 2, 1953 (10) 12 ____ Island, site in Table Bay north of Cape Town where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned (6) 14 A person who makes or sells spectacles (8) 15 A large-scale removal of trees for eg mining or road building purposes (13) 17 An outline or summary (8) 19 ____ Tudor, older brother of King Henry VIII who married Catherine of Aragon in 1501 before dying at the age of fifteen (6) 21 1991 crime drama film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze (5,5) 22 Desert that covers northern China and southern Mongolia (4) 23 Snow ____ , ScottishNorthern Irish rock band whose lead vocalist is Gary Lightbody (6) 24 A narrow seagoing vessel propelled by oars, often with a single mast and square sail (8)

DOWN

1 ____ juice, ingredient in a Bloody Mary cocktail with vodka and other seasonings (6) 2 A man-eating monster in folklore, usually represented as a hideous giant (4) 3 Charlie ____, Labour politician and QC who served as Lord Chancellor from 2003 to 2007 (8) 4 Surname of the principal family with five daughters in Jane Austen’s novel Pride And Prejudice (6) 5 A supplement added to the completed text of a book (10) 6 A motorway in Germany (8) 8 A domestic cat mottled in yellow and black (13) 13 Low jesting or clownish behaviour (10) 15 Routine or short-term (3-2-3) 16 People who come from the U.S. state that includes the cities of Anchorage and Juneau (8) 18 Alice ____, U.S. novelist who wrote the novel The Lovely Bones published in 2002 (6) 20 Italian region that contains the town of Assisi (6) 22 A sudden blast of wind (4)

SOLUTION TOMORROW

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