GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 TV sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker (2,6) 9 ____ Moyet, English singer/songwriter noted for her single Is This Love? (6) 10 Mild white tcheese, originally from south Wales (10) 11 City in the historic county of Somerset noted for its Georgian buildings (4) 12 ____ fin, part found on the back of a fish (6) 14 BBC investigative current affairs show, first aired 1953 (8) 15 One who sends electronic junk mail (7) 17 John, pseudonymous author of Tinker Tailor Soldier

Spy (2,5) 20 Term for a severe headache (8) 22 Country whose pre-euro currency was the drachma (6) 24 Affectionate nickname for English writer PG

Wodehouse (4) 25 English football team that won the 1982 European

Cup (5,5) 27 New information received or supplied (6) 28 Climbing shrub sometimes called Old Man’s Beard (8)

DOWN

1 ____ de Bergerac, large-nosed title character of an 1897 Edmond Rostand play (6) 2 Alan, comedian and judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (4) 3 _____ Fowler, EastEnders character played by Susan Tully and Jenna Russell (8) 4 One-eyed giant in Greek mythology (7) 5 Grand ____ , immense gorge cut by the Colorado River in Arizona (6) 6 Justin, U.S. singer/songwriter born in Memphis in 1981 (10) 7 Roger, baronial opponent of King Edward II and de facto regent from 1326 to 1330 (8) 13 Fictional home village of Miss Marple (2,4,4) 16 Mark, first husband of Britain’s Princess Anne (8) 18 Civil _____ , person who plans and builds roads, railways

and bridges (8) 19 Cos is a variety of this salad vegetable (7) 21 ___ Oakeshott, journalist and co-author of Call Me Dave,

a biography of David Cameron (6) 23 Macaulay, Home Alone actor (6) 26 ___ The Terrible, first to be proclaimed Tsar of Russia in

1547 (4)