GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1.

Surname of five sisters in the 1813 Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice (6)

5. London rugby union team founded in 1876 whose home ground is Allianz Park (8)

9. Belgian surrealist artist (1898-1967) whose works include The Son of Man and The Listening Room (8)

10. Uninhabited Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides, site of Fingal’s Cave (6)

11. Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543) who modelled the solar system with the sun as the centre rather than Earth (10)

12. Award-winning English stage and screen actor who starred in the films Alien, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Elephant Man (4)

13. English electrical engineer, inventor of the UK’s first mass-market home computer and a battery electric vehicle (8)

16. Word which can precede circle, tern, fox and Monkeys (6)

17. Nickname of All Black great Michael Jones (6)

19. 16th century Italian architect influenced by Roman and Greek architecture (8)

21. International grocery/convenience store chain founded in the Netherlands in 1932 (4)

22. Only person to have been US Vice President and President without being elected by the Electoral College (6,4)

25. Film-maker who wrote and directed The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot, Billy __ (6)

26. Adolph Hitler’s wife, who met him when she was 17 and working as a model (3,5)

27. “No-one can be good for long if goodness is not __ __”: Bertolt Brecht (2,6)

28. Women’s rights campaigner who opened the first birth control clinic in London in 1921 (6)

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2. In Greek mythology, the Muse of lyric and love poetry (5)

3. “It is the __ that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate”: Quintilian (5)

4. Uranus’ largest moon and 8th largest in the solar system, discovered by William Herschel in 1787 (7)

5. Small fore-and-aft sail hoisted on a small mast, used as a storm sail (7)

6. Body of water where, in 2007, the largest known colossal squid was captured (4,3)

7. Ballroom dance from Latin America introduced in the 1950s by Cuban composer Enrique Jorrin (3-3-3)

8. Second most famous Queen of Egypt after Cleopatra, Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten (9)

14. 2010 sci-fi film starring Leonardo di Caprio which won four Oscars (9)

15. Massachusetts city, home to Harvard University (9)

18. Large republic often referred to as the ‘Giant of Africa’ (7)

19. One of a group of shooting stars which appear each year around 10th August; first recorded in 36AD (7)

20. Historical language of the people of the lowlands of Scotland (7)

23. 1996 Coen brothers film starring Frances McDormand and William H. Macy (5)

24. Word which can follow Baton, Moulin and Khmer (5)