GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

7 A large, edible yellowflowered plant of the parsley family (6)

8 Market town in southern Lincolnshire that contains a statue to physicist Isaac Newton (8)

9 SS ____, ocean liner that was withdrawn from service by P&O in 1997 (8)

10 Les, English comedian who guest-hosted Countdown in August 2022 (6)

11 A runway without a normal terminal or other passenger facilities (8)

12 Not transparent or hard to understand (6)

13 A rapid or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion or illness (11)

18 Libyan city where the Allies surrendered to German general Erwin Rommel in 1942 (6)

20 Informal term for a mean or miserly person (8)

22 Dave, English stand-up comedian born in 1971, who created Googlewhack Adventures (6)

23 Ruminant animal whose species include the nilgai and blackbuck (8)

24 City in northern France noted for its Gothic SaintePierre cathedral (8)

25 Paul, novelist and essayist whose works include The New York Trilogy (6)

DOWN

1 European country that includes the cities of Iasi and Timisoara (7)

2 Hector, pirate played by Geoffrey Rush in the Pirates Of The Caribbean film series (8)

3 A mischievous or troublesome child (6)

4 A low-growing plant of the pink family with small white flowers (8)

5 A group of lines forming a basic metrical unit in a poem (6)

6 ____ Evans, English actor who played Corey Brent in Coronation Street (7)

8 Expression meaning ‘to resort to an inadequate remedy in desperation’ (5,2,6)

14 Kitty, woman who married the 1st Duke of Wellington in Dublin in 1806 (8)

15 To be far superior to (8)

16 ____ Bogey March, one often whistled and featuring in 1957 film The Bridge On The River Kwai (7)

17 Nickname of Newcastle United FC (7)

19 A commotion or noisy disturbance (6)

21 ____ City, home of the superhero Batman (6)

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