GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across

9. Position created by King Charles II in 1675 and first held by John Flamsteed (10,5)

10. Common name for any small brown spot known as an ephelis (7)

12. Painting medium consisting of coloured pigments mixed with egg yolks (7)

13. Actor who appeared in Friends and the miniseries Band of Brothers (9)

14. Eldest brother of King David (5) 15. Strips of dried, cured meat originating in South Africa (7)

18. Female who is the subject, and the title, of Chapter 13 in the Book of Daniel (7)

21. US crime drama series which aired from 2005 to March 2017 (5)

23. Country house in Norfolk which is the home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (5,4)

25. Location of the The Beatles final public performance, at the Apple Corps building in London, January 30, 1969 (7)

26. Straight line or plane that touches a curve but does not intersect it (7)

29. Film which won Best Picture and Best Director at the 1966 Oscars (3,5,2,5)

Down

1. Term for an orphaned or neglected child (4)

2. Stock market share index known informally as the Footsie (4)

3. Second largest of Japan’s four main islands (8)

4. Popular group of the disco era whose hits included Daddy Cool and Belfast (5,1)

5. Genre of films associated with Lee Van Cleef (8)

6. ___ l’oeil (‘something that deceives the eye’): an optical illusion or painting which misleads the viewer (6)

7. One of the Titans, father of Helios, Selene and Eos (8)

8. Fortress renovated and turned into a palace by Emir Mohammed ben Al-Amar in the mid 1400s (8)

11. Italian-born French fashion designer, born in Turin in 1883 (5)

15. American professional baseball player, 1895-1948, nicknamed ‘The Bambino’ (4,4)

16. “The spirit of the ___ stands resolute and undismayed”: King George VI, 1940 (8) 17. Camping, with a touch of luxury (8) 19. Smallest country in South America (8) 20. Tough, lightweight synthetic material invented in the 1930s (5)

22. Any humorous television programme following the day-to-day lives of its characters (6)

24. Meat used in a Lancashire hotpot (6) 27. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of __ left a name worth remembering”: Theodore Roosevelt (4)

28. Small arachnid responsible for the spread of Lyme Disease (4)