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
1 ____ Now, song covered by U.S. singer Tiffany that was a UK No. 1 hit in 1987 (1,5,4,5)
8 A tricycle with a two-seat passenger compartment operated by foot lever (7)
9 Language adopted by the African Union as an official language in 2004 (7)
10 Amounts of sheets of paper, each amount being worth 20 quires (5)
11 Song by Queen that was released in 1984 and written by their drummer, Roger Taylor (5,2,2)
12 Portmanteau word meaning a temporary circular shelter built from thin tree branches (7)
14 The first shot in golf from a tee (5)
15 Leonard, the doctor played by U.S. actor DeForest Kelley in Star Trek: The Original Series (5)
17 A clumsy or badly judged movement of the feet (7)
19 Narrow passages between or behind buildings (9)
22 English name for the northernmost of the Ionian Islands belonging to Greece (5)
23 To rebuke or scold (7)
24 ____ Pursuit, board game created in 1979, in which the design is based on a ship’s wheel (7)
25 U.S. author whose home in Key West in Florida was turned into a museum (6,9)
DOWN
1 An inch or pound are examples of one (8,7)
2 A street fitting with a nozzle that can link a hose to a water main (7)
3 The mother of invention, according to a proverb (9)
4 Max, German sociologist born in 1864, noted for his ideas on bureaucracy (5)
5 Battle of the ____, key conflict in the Texas Revolution of 1836 (5)
6 The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes (7)
7 English actress who played The Devil in the 2000 fantasy romcom film Bedazzled (9,6)
9 Sarah, Welsh actress portrayed as The Tragic Muse in a painting by Joshua Reynolds (7)
13 Carole, U.S. actress born in 1908, noted for her roles in screwball comedy films (7)
14 Radio ____ and ranging, meaning of the acronym ‘radar’ used in traffic control etc. (9)
16 Son of the witch Sycorax in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest (7)
18 The scope of the influence or concerns of something (7)
20 W.B., Irish poet who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature (5)
21 Non-communicative or silent, informally (5)