GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
7 Grand Prix circuit whose corners include Casino Square and Tabac (6) 8 Female spirits in Irish legend whose wailing warns of a death in the house (8) 9 Brian, actor who played
Andra in the TV comedy series Rab C. Nesbitt (8) 10 An arrangement of flowers fastened in a ring used for decoration or laying on a grave (6) 11 1978 play by English dramatist Harold Pinter about an extramarital affair (8) 12 Market town in Cumbria
that lies high in the North Pennines (6) 13 Art such as that practised by Quasimodo in the belfry in The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame (11) 18 At ____ Prison, first live
album by U.S. country singer Johnny Cash (6) 20 A signal that danger or
difficulty is over (3-5) 22 Honey, I ____ The Kids,
1990 comic sci-fi film starring Rick Moranis (6) 23 A long queue of stationary or slow-moving traffic due to a road blockage (8) 24 A person whose job is to call people together for a meeting of a committee (8) 25 To obtain something from
a specified source (6)
DOWN
1 Keep up with the ____, expression meaning ‘to not be outdone by one’s neighbours’ (7) 2 E. coli and streptococcus are examples of these usually free-living organisms (8) 3 Therese, politician who became deputy prime minister in September (6) 4 A cocktail of advocaat and lemonade with frothy white foam at the top (8) 5 U.S. TV sitcom whose characters included Woody Boyd and Rebecca Howe (6) 6 A crystalline compound with a minty taste and smell that is used as a flavouring (7) 8 U.S. actor who starred with Deborah Kerr in the 1953 film From Here To Eternity (4,9) 14 Large, rounded orangeyellow fruits that are symbols of Halloween (8) 15 Whoopi, U.S. actress and comedian born Caryn Elaine Johnson in 1955 (8) 16 2014 epic coming of age drama film starring Ellar Coltrane in the lead role (7) 17 Informal term for a room in a house in which males can enjoy hobbies without distraction (3,4) 19 Disease caused by deficiency of vitamin C that often affected sailors in the past (6) 21 People who own large
estates in Scotland (6)