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
5 ____ Rhys-Jones, who became daughter-in-law to the Queen in 1999 (6) 7 A seven-sided plane figure (8) 9 Round, flat organ to which the foetus is attached by the umbilical cord (8) 10 Paul, British actor who played Martin Goodman in the TV sitcom Friday Night Dinner (6) 11 1993 comedy film starring Bill Murray as TV weatherman Phil Connors (9,3) 13 Informal term for a very exclusive group of people who travel widely for pleasure (3,3) 15 Reddish metallic element that conducts heat and electricity well and is used in wiring and motors (6) 18 Pantomime dame and comic foil in the pantomime Aladdin (5,7) 21 An upper-body garment, quilted and strengthened with whalebone, worn chiefly by women (6) 22 An unruly young person or petty criminal (8) 23 Small songbird with a blue-grey back, black eyestripe and long beak (8) 24 Thomas, German appointed Chelsea FC head coach in 2021 (6)
DOWN
1 Another term for medical examinations (5-3) 2 ____ Brezhnev, Soviet leader from 1964 to 1982 (6) 3 Occasional or appearing now and again (8) 4 ____ Bay, body of water located on the coast of County Cork in southwestern Ireland (6) 6 Places frequented or inhabited by nocturnal hooting birds (8) 7 Paul, English singer/ songwriter who was a vocalist in The Housemartins and The Beautiful South (6) 8 Clive, English actor who played hitman The Professor in the 2002 thriller film The Bourne Identity (4) 12 An advantage gained for any purpose (8) 14 Former Conservative Prime Minister who used to sail in his yachts called Morning Cloud (3,5) 16 The Pirates Of ____ , comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan first performed in 1879 (8) 17 A sudden, sharp jerking movement (6) 18 Mark, reality TV personality and footballer who appeared on the first three series of The Only Way Is Essex (6) 19 A ghost or spectre of a dead person (6) 20 An east Asian curd made from mashed soya beans (4)
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