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

8 An adult male singing voice between tenor and bass (8)

9 ____ meeting, a religious gathering (6)

10 A business traditionally identified by a sign of three gold balls (10)

11 To border on, or touch along an edge (4)

12 Island in the Inner Hebrides that contains Fingal’s Cave (6)

14 1973 film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford (3,5)

15 A single instalment in a long-running TV or radio series (7)

17 ____ candle, one with fragrant oils mixed into the wax (7)

20 ____ rise, success that is achieved very quickly (8)

22 A long strip of pasta (6)

24 English city that contains the medieval shopping street The Shambles (4)

25 A subterranean room, such as a church crypt (10)

27 A full skirt tightly gathered at the waist (6)

28 U.S. blues singer born in 1886, played in a 2020 film by Viola Davis (2,6)

DOWN

1 The columns in the Giant’s Causeway are made from this rock (6)

2 A single-handed, catrigged dinghy (4)

3 An area of uncultivated ground where the surface layer of the soil is peat (8)

4 Rob, team captain on Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown (7)

5 Thinly dispersed or scattered (6)

6 U.S. city that contains the Alamo Mission (3,7)

7 A division of a film roughly equivalent to a scene in a stage play (8)

13 Custodian of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend (6,4)

16 Administrative capital of South Africa (8)

18 On the ____, expression meaning ‘quite the opposite’ (8)

19 A place of study or training in a special field (7)

21 The official national currency of Russia (6)

23 River on which Dublin stands (6)

26 A remnant of an old building (4)

SOLUTION TOMORROW