Triwizard Contest - Round 1

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Across
  1. 5. a process brought to popular conscious by a 2024 political thriller, its latest rendition happened in April,2025.
  2. 7. Someone who walks stealthily; A sports shoe with pliable rubber sole
  3. 10. form a natural boundary between Europe and Asia, give their name to a language family
  4. 12. North of Newfoundland; most popular of its kind and is followed by Deutscher Schäferhund
  5. 14. If in a certain classification LC stands for Least Concern, NT stands for Near Threatened, VU stands for Vulnerable, what does EX stand for?
  6. 15. What commodity overtook Nvidia to become the second largest asset in the world by market cap, before crashing in the first week of this year in a dark cloud? It would have received a medal of its own making.
Down
  1. 1. A domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a pack animal and for its wool in the Andes; A family of large language models released by an American multinational company.
  2. 2. Common word between: English football team manager in the 2018 and 2022 world cup,1972 political scandal and An individual, entity or mechanism that controls access to resources, information or decision-makers.
  3. 3. What fast developing sport was originally created from leftover equipment from several sports; a badminton court, paddleball paddles, a wiffle ball and a net height like that of tennis?
  4. 4. Germanic people that invaded the Roman Empire; modern group frustrated from being compared with emoes.
  5. 6. Alphabet comes from two words , what are they? (2)
  6. 8. opera set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a decorative figurine resembling a toy soldier.
  7. 9. name of this dish whose origins are contentious is derived from palpēl meaning -  'to be round, roll.'
  8. 11. Alphabet comes from two words , what are they? (1)
  9. 13. famous piece of audio voiced by Zoe Lister and set to Jess Glynne’s “Darling Hold My Hand”