GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Fruit of the flowering plant genus Vitis (6)

5. US Secretary of Defense from 1975-1977 and again from 2001-2006 (8)

9. Partition which divides a ship into compartments (8)

10. “Action speaks louder than words, but not ___ as often”: Mark Twain (6)

11. Collective noun for a group of apes (10)

12. Piece of material removed from a paper card by a hole punch (4)

13. Colloquialism for a detective story about a crime and solution of that crime (8)

16. Female teddy bear who is a friend of Noddy (6)

17. Mythical creatures in Norse mythology (6)

19. Largest city north of the Arctic Circle, near Russia’s borders with Norway and Finland (8)

21. Collective name for a group of badgers (4)

22. Germany’s equivalent of England’s Premier League or Italy’s Serie A (10)

25. Salted roe of the sturgeon (6)

26. US gameshow which first aired in 1964 and is still running (8)

27. First period of the Mesozoic era, preceding the Jurassic period (8)

28. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible ___”: Edgar Allan Poe (6)

Down

2. Word that precedes collie, diamond and guide (5)

3. Gaming machine creating a game of chance (5)

4. Surname of the only New Zealand family to have four generations play first-class cricket (7)

5. Good source of protein and iron (3,4)

6. Mental attitude or inclination (7)

7. Italian female given name derived from a Latin male name meaning ‘the Frenchman’ (9)

8. Songs to soothe infants (9)

14. Natural material used as padding in furniture upholstery (9)

15. Italian phrase which means ‘sweet life’ (5,4)

18. Residential districts around a city (7)

19. Small Asian deer known as the barking deer (7)

20. South African antelopes with only the male having straight, upright horns (7)

23. “___ continually, there’s always ‘one more thing’ to ___”: Steve Jobs (5)

24. Waiting for ___: 1953 play by Samuel Beckett in which the titular character never appears (5)