GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
6 Captain _____ , floorwalker played by Frank Thornton in the TV sitcom Are You Being Served? (7) 7 Nigel _____ , Welsh rugby union referee born in 1971 (5) 9 Barley or other grain as used in brewing beer (4) 10 No 1 UK hit in 2017 by Ed Sheeran (5,2,3) 11 Relating to the period just after birth (8) 13 Accurate replica or model of a machine or other structure (4-2) 15 Small inflamed swelling on the eyelid (4) 17 Big pillar supporting a bridge, road or the like (5) 18 John Forbes _____ , U.S. mathematician played by Russell Crowe in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind (4) 19 Mick _____ , lead singer and founder member of the Rolling Stones (6) 20 Suspended carriage used as a form of transport up mountains or across valleys (5-3) 23 Concrete barrier dividing Germany’s largest city dismantled between 1989 and 1991 (6,4) 26 Billy _____ , sailor created by Herman Melville, later the title character in an opera by Benjamin Britten (4) 27 Dry, pale white wine from
the Veneto region of Italy (5) 28 Francisco _____ , Spanish conqueror of the Inca empire (7)
DOWN
1 Oblong cake having alternate squares of pink and yellow in cross section and covered in marzipan (10) 2 The ancient hillside chalk figure Cerne Giant is in this county (6) 3 Any of a genus of predatory gulls with primarily dark brown plumage (4) 4 Fungus The _____ , illustrated children’s book by Raymond Briggs published in 1977 (8) 5 _____ Bridges, Crazy Heart actor (4) 6 English name for the wide river estuary that forms part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay (5) 8 Former hereditary military governors in Japan (7) 12 Shrub noted for its fragrant blossom with a pale pinkish violet colour (5) 14 Archbishop of ____ , primus inter pares of the primates in the Anglican Church (10) 16 P.L. _____ , Australian-English writer who created Mary Poppins (7) 17 Mountain range on the border between France and Spain (8) 21 Central American country formerly called British Honduras (6) 22 Recorded or reproduced
sound (5) 24 Bluish-grey metallic element whose chemical symbol is Pb (4) 25 Shortened term for units of
electric current (4)
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