GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
PLAY our accumulator game! For your chance to win a Cross ballpoint pen, solve the crossword to reveal the letter in the pink circle. If you have been playing since Monday, you should now have a five-letter word. To enter, call 0901 133 4423 and leave your answer and details. Or text 65700 with the word FIVE and your answer and name.
TEXTS and calls cost 50p plus standard network charges. One winner chosen from all correct entries received between 00.01 today and 23.59 this Sunday. UK residents aged 18+ excl NI. Full terms apply, see Page 66.
ACROSS
6 A kind of long-grain Indian rice with a delicate fragrance (7) 7 Turner & ____, a 1990 comedy film about a detective and a dog (5) 9 A brass instrument with a bell that typically faces upwards (4) 10 Body of water in Scotland that includes the island of Inchmurrin (4,6) 11 A person who hides on
a ship or aircraft (8) 13 Very small or meagre (6) 15 An ancient Greek coin worth one sixth of a drachma (4) 17 ____ Distel, the French singer who sang Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head in 1970 (5) 18 ____ Music, English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry and Graham Simpson (4) 19 ____ Swann, English ex-right-arm off-spinner who was born in 1979 (6) 20 Like rousing music (8) 23 Hungarian shadow theatre group who won the seventh series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2013 (10) 26 James, the late U.S. actor who played Sonny Corleone in The Godfather films (4) 27 Normally oversized key
on a qwerty keyboard (5) 28 Broadcasting time that is devoted to a particular musical record, genre or performer (7)
DOWN
1 Irish playwright who created the character Algernon Moncrieff (5,5) 2 Species of deer introduced into the UK by the Normans in the 11th century (6) 3 A silvery-white metal with a blue tinge that tarnishes in air (4) 4 ____ Gregory, English historical novelist noted for her 2001 work The Other Boleyn Girl (8) 5 A machine for weaving (4) 6 Anthony, British art historian who was later revealed to be a Soviet spy (5) 8 Nick, English actor who plays DS Jamie Winter in Midsomer Murders (7) 12 A plant of the agave family with sword-like leaves and spikes of bellshaped flowers (5) 14 Extensive or involving
significant numbers (5,5) 16 A glass tube with a small tap at the base used to add liquid into something (7) 17 Assets set aside for generating
profit in the future (4,4) 21 To give a teacher or lecturer
a permanent post (6) 22 EU country in which Mario Draghi resigned as prime minister in July (5) 24 Moabite woman in the Old Testament whose mother-in-law is Naomi (4) 25 ____ Lendl, Czech-U.S. ex-tennis player who coaches Andy Murray (4)
SOLUTION ON MONDAY