GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Cheerful and optimistic (7) 7 To supply with the necessary items for a particular purpose (5) 9 ____ Wyn Jones, recently retired Welsh rugby union international, the sport’s most-capped player (4) 10 A women’s cloakroom or toilet in a restaurant, hotel, etc. (6,4) 11 Luxury foods whose types include beluga, ossetra and sevruga (8) 13 Organisation whose motto

is ‘Be Prepared’ (6) 15 ____ boxing, traditional martial art allowing knees and elbows for blows (4) 17 ____ Island, fictional beach town in the Jaws film series (5) 18 Currency adopted by

12 countries in 2002 (4) 19 Steve, late radio DJ born in 1954, who pioneered the zoo format (6) 20 ____ Mill (Scene on a Navigable River), oil painting by John Constable created in 1816-17 (8) 23 A sum, typically a set percentage of the value, paid to an agent in a deal (10) 26 English county that contains the motor racing circuit Brands Hatch (4) 27 Sidney, 20th-century painter famed for depicting Australian icons such as Ned Kelly (5) 28 A gum, spice or other substance burned for the sweet smell it produces (7)

DOWN

1 Moving to a smaller

place of residence (10) 2 A destitute person (6) 3 Cholent is a traditional Sabbath one in Jewish cuisine (4) 4 ____ Bay, cove in East Sussex where William the Conqueror landed in 1066 (8) 5 Francoise, tennis player who won the 1967 French Championships women’s singles (4) 6 ____ Swan, character who marries Edward Cullen in the Twilight book series (5) 8 Mike, late South African all-rounder who played for Gloucestershire (7) 12 A light rowing or sculling boat, typically for one person (5) 14 Informal term meaning ‘a person unlike any other’ (3,2,1,4) 16 A barbed missile resembling a spear, used for catching whales (7) 17 Workers in a skilled trade, especially one involving making things by hand (8) 21 A plant of the daisy family used in the treatment of bruises (6) 22 ____ Zellweger, actress who played Roxie Hart in 2003 film Chicago (5) 24 The Green ____, 2000 supernatural drama starring Tom Hanks (4) 25 The official state flower

of Tennessee (4)