GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN
ACROSS
7 River that flows from
the Rockies to the Gulf of California (8) 9 Medieval pieces of
this might include a cuisse and greave (6) 10 A group of these
insects is called an army or colony (4) 11 ____ Eyes, song covered by singer-songwriter Kim Carnes in 1981 (5,5) 12 Such a competitor might adopt a lunge or parry (6) 14 A coal bunker for
a ship’s furnace (8) 15 U.S. comedy film series whose final instalment was Mission To Moscow in 1994 (6,7) 17 ____ Palace, birthplace in 1874 of Winston Churchill (8) 19 Urban railway systems
that run wholly or partly underground (6) 21 Energy that is derived
from the sun (5,5) 22 An unfermented soy
bean curd used in Asian cuisine (4) 23 Clarke, U.S. actor who played detective Lester Freamon in TV police drama series The Wire (6) 24 Nickname of U.S.
jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker (8)
DOWN
1 ____ Huq, the longestserving female presenter of the children’s TV programme Blue Peter (6) 2 ____ Boatman, English actor and poker player who plays Harvey Monroe in EastEnders (4) 3 Savagely cruel
or brutish (8) 4 To move in a fast and
uncontrolled way (6) 5 A partial or complete loss of function of a body part or organ (10) 6 ____ canal, narrow passageway from the outer ear to the eardrum (8) 8 Expression meaning
‘in a safe place’ (3,2,5,3) 13 Rows of evenly spaced pillars supporting roofs or arches (10) 15 A knitted garment covering the top half of the body (8) 16 Those with a particular regard for someone or something (8) 18 A report in the media that reveals something discreditable (6) 20 English city whose suburbs include Cowley and Jericho (6) 22 ____ Belch, Olivia’s uncle in William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night (4)
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