GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Pseudonym of gossip sheet writer Penelope Featherington in TV drama series Bridgerton (4,11) 8 ____ wedding, a sixtieth

anniversary of marriage (7) 9 Welsh ____ , a savoury dish of melted cheese on hotbuttered toast (7) 10 Surname of the family in the TV series Dallas whose mansion was Southfork Ranch (5) 11 ____ junction, an interchange usually between motorways with many intersecting roads (9) 12 ____ transference, another

term for telepathy (7) 14 To dismantle and remove equipment from e.g. a ship or stage set (5) 15 Conchita, professional name of Austrian singer and drag queen who won Eurovision in 2014 (5) 17 Peter Griffin’s biological son voiced by Wallace Shawn in the animated TV series Family Guy (7) 19 2010 sci-fi action film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief (9) 22 The customs of a particular

place or group of people (5) 23 Shallow containers in offices for placing mail or documents requiring attention (2-5) 24 Harry, U.S. escape artist and illusionist born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874 (7) 25 England national football team manager appointed to the role in 2016 (6,9)

DOWN

1 Female attendants, often of noble birth, of a queen or princess (6-2-7) 2 One who keeps a regular record of events or transactions in a journal (7) 3 To catch unprepared or disconcert by an unexpected move (5-4) 4 Asian river that rises in

southwestern Tibet (5) 5 The wire in a UK plug that has

yellow and green stripes (5) 6 A spacecraft or satellite that moves around a planet without landing on it (7) 7 The Dukeries district is in this

English county (15) 9 A machine or site that is used to produce nuclear energy (7) 13 Small, ugly, gnome-like creatures of folklore and fantasy fiction (7) 14 Site in Devon of Britain’s Royal

Naval College (9) 16 Gerhard, German artist born in 1932 noted for his blurred portraiture (7) 18 ____ Cole, British crime writer whose debut novel Dangerous Lady was published in 1992 (7) 20 Gail, character played by Helen Worth in Coronation Street (5) 21 Jawaharlal, first prime minister of independent India (5)

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