GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Staging area for mountaineers (4,4) 5 Anne of ____ , King Henry VIII’s fourth wife (6) 10 John, Scottish snooker player nicknamed The Wizard of Wishaw (7) 11 Public sale at which goods are sold to the highest bidder (7) 12 A bundle of papers or stalks of corn (5) 13 Assessment of private resources to determine a claim to a concession or allowance (5,4) 14 Freshwater fish with black spots and a longitudinal red stripe on either flank (7,5) 18 Limestone block supposed to grant ‘the gift of the gab’ (7,5) 21 French phrase meaning ‘required by strict etiquette’ (2,7) 23 A frame for supporting a picture during painting (5) 24 To refrain from voting (7) 25 Neurologist Sigmund Freud left this country for the UK in 1938 (7) 26 Natural or instinctive (6) 27 To intimidate with claims of doing future harm (8)

DOWN

1 Authority or command (6) 2 Mollie, Are You Being Served? actress (6) 3 British battle tank, a development of the Centurion (9) 4 Secretary to M in the James Bond novels and films (4,10) 6 Matt, actor and comedian who starred in the TV comedy series Little Britain (5) 7 Larynx is the technical term for this part of the human body (5,3) 8 Godliness or an inviolable nature (8) 9 Song that was a UK No 1 hit in 1986 for Madonna (4,4,6) 15 ____ Williams, U.S. playwright noted for A Streetcar Named Desire (9) 16 Capital city of the United Arab Emirates (3,5) 17 Body of troops stationed in a town to defend it (8) 19 ____ de corps, French phrase meaning ‘group morale and unity’ (6) 20 Damon, lead vocalist and lyricist of Blur (6) 22 Hugh, actor who played Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW