GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Martin, U.S. director who made the 2014 black comedy film The Wolf Of Wall Street (8) 9 Constellation in the northern sky whose name is the Latin for charioteer (6) 10 Anniversary of Scotland’s national poet celebrated on January 25th (5,5) 11 The Mekong and the Brahmaputra are rivers in this continent (4) 12 1960 horror thriller film starring Janet Leigh as Marion Crane (6) 14 One who fishes for small, edible pink crustaceans (8) 15 Queen Victoria was the last monarch of this British royal house (7) 17 Former Arsenal and Manchester United footballer Alexis Sánchez has this nationality (7) 20 A flag or ribbon that waves in the air (8) 22 To begin again (6) 24 Barbara, U.S. actress who starred in The Spy Who Loved Me and is married to Ringo Starr (4) 25 German passenger airship that crashed by its mooring mast in New Jersey in 1937 (10) 27 Astrological sign that precedes Cancer (6) 28 An organised collection of files of information held on a computer (8)

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1 Clothes worn by medical staff when performing or assisting in surgery (6) 2 Uncle ____, character played by Rob Brydon in the TV sitcom Gavin & Stacey (4) 3 Informal term for a very tall, thin person (8) 4 ____ and Horsa, brothers and legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain (7) 5 Dan, New Zealand rugby union fly-half who is the highest points scorer in international rugby (6) 6 Retired CIA operative played by Liam Neeson in the Taken film series (5,5) 7 Christina, U.S. singer/ songwriter who collaborated with Maroon 5 on the 2011 song Moves like Jagger (8) 13 A combined collar and lead for a dog that can tighten around the dog’s neck (5,5) 16 Sam, former EastEnders actor who won the TV entertainment show Dancing On Ice in 2011 (8) 18 Gathers in crops (8) 19 TV company founded by Sidney Bernstein to run ITV’s northwest England franchise (7) 21 Long, white, fine silken hair of the Angora goat (6) 23 An area of soft, wet ground (6) 26 1995 comedy film about an orphaned piglet (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW