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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN

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

5 A market in a Middle

Eastern country (6)

7 Bill, Scottish actor who played the father of the title character in Fleabag (8)

9 Hertfordshire city that

contains the Campaign for Real Ale’s HQ (2,6)

10 Former capital of Northern Rhodesia and the current capital of Zambia (6)

11 Jazz song by U.S. songwriter Herman Hupfeld that features in the 1942 film Casablanca (2,4,4,2)

13 Cliff, character in Dallas

played by U.S. actor Ken Kercheval (6)

15 Jamaican ____, the

official currency of the Caribbean country (6)

18 The Dragon Gate forms the entrance to Chinatown in this U.S. city (3,9)

21 Giorgia, Italian politician elected prime minister of her country in 2022 (6)

22 ____ Territory, part of Australia that includes Darwin and Alice Springs (8)

23 U.S. actress born in 1905, who was dubbed the Queen of Hollywood in her heyday (5,3)

24 Having sworn to tell

the truth in law (2,4)

DOWN

1 A message, code or tune broadcast by radio to identify the transmitter (4,4) 2 European project to send launch vehicles into space, begun in 1979 (6)

3 Depicted or treated in

a non-realistic fashion (8)

4 Lorraine, female vocalist on Meat Loaf’s hit I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) (6)

6 ____ well, one in which water flows up to the surface under natural pressure (8)

7 A minister in charge of a Christian church or congregation (6)

8 The English and the sessile are native species of these trees in the UK (4)

12 Card game played at casinos that started in Italy in the 15th century (8)

14 ____ heat, one felt as it moves from one system to another changing the temperature (8)

16 Jim, goalkeeper who won

91 caps for Scotland (8)

17 Every nook and ____, expression meaning ‘all parts of a place’ (6)

18 Measuring and slotted are types of these kitchen utensils (6)

19 Peter, U.S. programmer born in 1943, noted for the computer programs that bear his name (6)

20 A tariff or tax (4)

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