GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Dry white wine from northern Italy (5) 7 The Blue Nile rises in this country (8) 10 Large Japanese earthenware pan or brazier for burning charcoal (7) 11 Royal Liverpool Golf Club’s home (7) 12 Brendan, Northern Irish manager of Leicester City (7) 13 Michael, A Child of Our Time composer (7) 14 British mathematician and Lord Byron’s daughter, dubbed the world’s first computer programmer (3,8) 19 Fruit stewed in sugar or syrup (7) 21 Hunter turned into a stag by Artemis in Greek mythology (7) 23 Lord of the Rings character played on film by

Sean Bean (7) 25 Physical game played on a mat invented by Charles Foley

in 1966 (7) 26 Loose protective or decorative garment worn

over a dress (8) 27 Stephen Jay, U.S. paleontologist, evolutionary biologist

and science writer (5)

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1 Its national flag features a depiction of the Angkor Wat temple (8) 2 Widespread genus of grasses (6) 3 Britain’s largest container port in Suffolk (10) 4 Persian title equivalent to king (4) 5 Issey, Japanese fashion designer born in 1938 (6) 6 Desert whose highest point is Emi Koussi (6) 8 Washington state’s capital (7) 9 Irish poet who received the Nobel Literature Prize in 1923 (5) 13 Late evening comedy and talk TV show hosted by Adam Hills (3,4,3) 15 Technical term for the loss of a sense of smell (7) 16 An alloy of gold and silver, once used in coinage and jewellery (8) 17 Device used by skin-divers to assist breathing (5) 18 ____ Bergman, actress who won her first Best Actress Oscar for Gaslight in 1944 (6) 20 William, English designer and Arts and Crafts

movement leader (6) 22 Assessment of wounds or illnesses to determine

urgency of treatment (6) 24 Joe, Alastair Cook’s successor as England’s Test

cricket captain (4) SOLUTION ON MONDAY