General Knowledge Crossword

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3. Former duchy annexed by Prussia in 1864 (9) 8. 1918 novel by Wyndham Lewis (4) 9. Show-jumping horse owned by Harry Llewellyn (9) 10. Colour of the ball worth two points in snooker (6) 11. Arthur, US songwriter who produced the 1952 film Singin’ in the Rain (5) 14. David, author of the 1986 novel A Bit of a Do (5) 15. In Mexican cookery, a tortilla folded into a roll and fried (4) 16 & 20A 1864 Tennyson poem about a man presumed dead after a shipwreck (5,5) 18. Unit used in meterology to measure cloud cover (4) 20. See 16 Across 21. African state whose capital is Cairo (5) 24. Joseph, author of Catch-22 (6) 25. Pilot who is the central character in Catch-22 (9) 26. County in S.W. Ireland in Munster province (4) 27. European plant cultivated for its aromatic seeds (9)

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1. 1977 novel by Paul Scott (7,2) 2. Extinct marine arthropod (9) 4. Songbird of the genus Corvus (4) 5. Franz, composer of the operetta The Merry Widow (5) 6. 14 line verse form of Italian origin (6) 7. Charles, U.S composer whose works include the Concord Sonata (4) 9. Bob, director of the film Cabaret (5) 11. Robert, US poet whose books include A Boy’s Will (5) 12. Plant with yellow rayed flowers (9) 13. Common Eurasian rail of fields and meadows (9) 17. Walter, 192427 US PGA golf champion (5) 19. Andre, 1995 Australian Open champion (6) 22. Juan, Argentine dictator 1946-55 (5) 23. Aldo, prime minister of Italy 1974-76 who was murdered in 1978 (4) 24. Food fish of the genus Merluccius (4)