GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 First wife of James II of England and mother of Mary II and Queen Anne (4,4) 5 Heat (6) 10 Diacritical mark placed under a ‘c’ in French (7) 11 Low padded seat without a back or arms (7) 12 Ballroom dance of Argentinian origin (5) 13 Director whose last film was Family Plot in 1976 (9) 14 Canadian singer/songwriter whose final album was You Want It Darker (7,5) 18 Hating or distrustful of mankind (12) 21 Rapidly executed sets of notes on a harp or piano (9) 23 ____ column, newspaper feature about personal problems (5) 24 Broad-minded or generous (7) 25 Del Boy’s family in Only Fools And Horses (7) 26 The FSB is this country’s main security agency (6) 27 Highest mountain in the UK (3,5)

DOWN

1 Louisa May, Little Women novelist (6) 2 _____ Coyle, Irish singer and former member of Girls Aloud (6) 3 Horror franchise centred on the murderous Michael Myers (9) 4 Agatha Christie novel published in 1937 (5,2,3,4) 6 Letter traditionally dropped in cockney speech (5) 7 Extinct elephants with hairy coats and upcurving tusks (8) 8 The Kowloon Peninsula is part of this former British colony (4,4) 9 Character able to speak to animals created by Hugh Lofting (6,8) 15 1974 neo-noir film starring Jack Nicholson (9) 16 One who imports or exports goods illegally (8) 17 Perennial plants cultivated for their ornamental spikes and clusters of pink or white flowers (8) 19 Russian town on the banks of Lake Nero, centre of the Golden Ring (6) 20 Island containing the Troodos Mountains (6) 22 Maurizio, Italian manager of Chelsea 2018-19 (5)