GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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7 A scented ointment
applied to the hair (6) 8 A small round opening in a door through which callers may be identified (8) 9 European city in which the International Criminal Court is located (3,5) 10 Twelve ____ of Israel, Hebrew people named after the sons and grandsons of Jacob (6) 11 ____ Vos, Dutch multidiscipline cyclist who is a three-times world road race champion (8) 12 Independent school in Derbyshire attended by Jeremy Clarkson (6) 13 TV crime drama whose stars include James Norton as antagonist Tommy Lee Royce (5,6) 18 Any bone of the wrist (6) 20 ____ Centre, shopping area in Greater Manchester that opened in 1998 (8) 22 ____ fox, huge bat with a large wingspan found in Australasia and Africa (6) 23 Martin, U.S. president of Dutch descent, born in 1782 and nicknamed The Little Magician (3,5) 24 The ____, U.S. girl group noted for their 1964 song Baby Love (8) 25 John, director whose films include Three Amigos and Trading Places (6)
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1 Eddie, musician and pioneer of rockabilly, whose songs include Summertime Blues (7) 2 A shawl made from fine
quality goat’s wool (8) 3 Gillian, Conservative politician who was appointed Education Secretary in 2022 (6) 4 ____ muscles, those in the chest that can be used to move the shoulder (8) 5 A small edible crustacean
with an elongated body (6) 6 Brendan, actor who starred with Colin Farrell in the 2022 film The Banshees Of Inisherin (7) 8 Chemicals used to stop
food from decaying (13) 14 The custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time (8) 15 Liquid waste or sewage discharged into a river or sea (8) 16 Give financial assistance to a struggling business to save it from collapse (4,3) 17 Country and former Soviet republic that uses the dram as its national currency (7) 19 A tool for gripping small
objects or bending wire (6) 21 ____ Bocklin, Swiss symbolist painter noted for his work Isle Of The Dead (6)
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