GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across 9.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1935 (6,9)

10. Japanese artist who married John Lennon in 1969 (4,3)

12. Straight wooden spike used for spinning fibres (7)

13. Edible green nut of the cashew family (9)

14. ___ Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (5)

15. University established in 1936 and named after an English minister who was a major benefactor (7)

18. Soldiers responsible for road construction and repair, clearing minefields, etc. (7)

21. River which runs through Spain and Portugal (5)

23. Frances ___, winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Actress (9)

25. Person who walks in the (British) countryside for recreation (7)

26. Cross between a grapefruit and tangerine (7)

29. Club which has won Australia’s NRL three times, the last in 1994 (8,7)

Down 1.

Lady Jane __, English noblewoman known as the ‘Nine Days’ Queen’, for the length of her reign in 1553 (4)

2. Russia’s seventh largest city, situated in southwestern Siberia (4)

3. Japanese word for goodbye (8)

4. 1999 song performed by rock band Santana and Matchbox 20 vocalist Rob Thomas (6)

5. Exercise to strengthen the abdominal muscles, using the legs (8)

6. Chemical element with the atomic number 11 (6)

7. Actor known as the Muscles from Brussels (3,5)

8. “Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous __”: William Wordsworth (8)

11. South Island railway tunnel opened in 1923 (5)

15. An achievement in various sports (3,5)

16. Large unit within an army, commanded by a colonel in the British army (8)

17. Light brown cane sugar from Guyana (8)

19. Hit song released by Black Sabbath in 1970 (8)

20. Of or relating to the kidneys (5)

22. Silver tray used for serving drinks on formal occasions (6)

24. Poisonous flowering plants known as devil’s trumpets (6)

27. “No man was __ wise by chance”: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4)

28. Name of several British rivers, one being Britain’s fourth-longest river (4)