General Knowledge Crossword for Adults

This hard crossword about general knowledge has 25 entries on a 15 by 15 grid, 11 across and 14 down.

Answers average 6.1 letters and the longest runs eleven, clued as "The political advisor who preferred fear over love" (17 Across). It crosses five other answers, so getting it early opens up much of the grid.

  • 25 clues
  • 15 x 15 grid
  • Hard
  • Answers 4 to 11 letters

The three longest answers

  1. 17 Across (11)The political advisor who preferred fear over love
  2. 11 Down (11)An estate in the clouds built without mortar
  3. 12 Down (10)The astronomer who put the sun in its proper place

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Across

  1. 2. Author who turned a man into a bug and left us with bureaucracy
  2. 5. The fertile grass sea of South America
  3. 9. A dark stone that spoke three languages at once
  4. 10. A harbor wave born from a deep earth tremor
  5. 17. The political advisor who preferred fear over love
  6. 18. An ideal island that literally nowhere exists
  7. 19. A sandy plateau with highly triangular residents
  8. 21. A dark stone that sounds like a fingernail
  9. 22. A speaker who only repeats what they are told
  10. 23. The military muscle behind a puppet emperor
  11. 24. A celestial beast that is hard to bear

Down

  1. 1. The day when the sun stands still at the extreme ends of the year
  2. 3. The main highway leading out of the heart
  3. 4. Indivisible unit that was proved completely wrong
  4. 6. High for a man, but low for a woman
  5. 7. A long story from the icy north
  6. 8. A spinning skirt that never hits the floor
  7. 11. An estate in the clouds built without mortar
  8. 12. The astronomer who put the sun in its proper place
  9. 13. Volcanic glass that was the scalpel of the ancient world
  10. 14. A temple of virgin wisdom overlooking Athens
  11. 15. An archipelago of tortoises that inspired a giant leap in biology
  12. 16. An active change in a silent chamber
  13. 20. A fossilized trap for ancient hitchhikers
  14. 21. Ill wind that nobody blows good

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