GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Jane, third wife of King Henry VIII and mother of King Edward VI (7) 7 Michelle, U.S. lawyer and author of the memoir Becoming (5) 9 ___ Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy first published in book form in 1878 (4) 10 English singer/songwriter and lead vocalist of Roxy Music (5,5) 11 Men whose wives have died and have not remarried (8) 13 A repeat performance or additional item in response to an audience (6) 15 Red-billed hornbill voiced by Rowan Atkinson in the 1994 film The Lion King (4) 17 John Logie, Scottish engineer and inventor known as ‘The Father of Television’ (5) 18 The back of the neck (4) 19 Corfe Castle is in this English county (6) 20 19th century English handicraftsmen who destroyed industrial machinery (8) 23 Amusement venue in Surrey that opened in 1979 (6,4) 26 Number of players in a baseball team (4) 27 Ballroom dance of Cuban origin (5) 28 The Beatles’ final studio album released in 1970 (3,2,2)

DOWN

1 Sites of worship in Judaism (10) 2 Bungo was such a pointy-nosed, furry creature created by Elisabeth Beresford (6) 3 Jennifer, Dirty Dancing actress (4) 4 Peter, equerry to King George VI once romantically linked to Princess Margaret (8) 5 Gaynor, actress who won the inaugural series of Dancing On Ice in 2006 (4) 6 Triangular peninsula linking Africa and Asia (5) 8 Delivery of troops or supplies by parachute from a plane to an inaccessible place (3,4) 12 An ordinary photograph or one taken in a film often used for publicity purposes (5) 14 U.S. city whose American football team are called the Bengals (10) 16 ____ Country, novel by James Baldwin published in 1962 (7) 17 John, British Poet Laureate 1972-84 (8) 21 ____ Johnson, actress who played Anastasia Steele in the Fifty Shades film series (6) 22 ___ Els, South African golfer who won the British Open in 2002 and 2012 (5) 24 Capital that is the site of the Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheatre (4) 25 A friendly person or nation (4)