GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 2014 Winter Olympics host city (5) 7 Muscle that causes movement of a limb away from the body’s midplane (8) 10 The dung of an otter (7) 11 Characterising Muslim civilisation in North Africa and Spain 711-1492 AD (7) 12 Reddish purple colour (7) 13 British Field Marshal who directed the Palestine campaign in World War I (7) 14 Maximilien, French revolutionary leader who died in 1794 (11) 19 ______ Diaz, Gangs of New York actress (7) 20 Setting of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (7) 22 Paddy, Charles Kennedy’s predecessor as Liberal Democrat leader (7) 25 Asian contact sport played between two teams of seven players (7) 26 Busby, U.S. film director and musical choreographer (8) 27 The Diamond Jubilee Stakes is run at this racecourse (5)

DOWN

1 Mr ______ , fictional antagonist in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale Of Peter Rabbit (8) 2 Italian Renaissance painter noted for Bacchus and Ariadne (6) 3 Ex-rugby playing team captain in A Question Of Sport (4,6) 4 ___ Peaty, British breaststroke swimmer (4) 5 Narendra, Indian Prime Minister first elected in 2014 (4) 6 _____ Street, U.S. children’s TV series whose characters include Big Bird (6) 8 Ryan, Black Panther director (7) 9 Japanese variety of soy sauce (5) 13 U.S. singer and musician noted for her single Fallin’ (6,4) 15 Coarse weedy plant with large heart-shaped leaves (7) 16 Orpheus’ wife in Greek mythology (8) 17 Billy, whose sole UK No 1 was When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (5) 18 Follower of revolutionary Chinese communism (6) 21 Person born under the seventh sign of the zodiac (6) 23 ___ Morgan, frontman of the rock/hip hop band Fun Lovin’ Criminals (4) 24 It is called the father of African rivers (4)

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