GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Desert in southern Africa that occupies a large part of Botswana (8) 9 ____ cabinet, place for keeping and displaying cups and awards (6) 10 The Scout Motto (2,8) 11 Disney character loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen (4) 12 The fourth ____ , informal term for the press (6) 14 Sprouting and calabrese are varieties of this vegetable (8) 15 Omid, British-Iranian standup comedian born in 1965 (7) 17 Nick, English actor who plays Tony Hutchinson in Hollyoaks (7) 20 French writer Victor Hugo had his home Hauteville House on this island (8) 22 ____ Accords, peace agreement reached in 1995 in Ohio ending the war in Bosnia (6) 24 British queen who made Sarah Churchill Lady of the Bedchamber (4) 25 Title of Del Boy’s “genuine autobiography” published in 2015 (2,3,5) 27 Peter, late British TV golf commentator born in Berlin in 1931 (6) 28 Elected county officers in the U.S. responsible for peace and order and attending courts (8)
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1 An unkindness is the collective noun for these jet black birds (6) 2 Eddie, Scottish radio presenter on LBC (4) 3 Glen, U.S. country singer who sang the title song to the 1969 western True Grit (8) 4 A bacterium causing disease or fermentation (7) 5 An artist’s workroom (6) 6 A Cockney song with a traditional dance routine often performed in a circle (5,5) 7 James Abbott McNeill, U.S.born artist noted for his nocturnes of the River Thames (8) 13 Nickname of Edinburgh originating from the smoke that used to hang over the city (4,6) 16 Periodical publications containing news or matters of current interest (8) 18 Colloquial expression for ‘numerous’ (2,6) 19 An informal term for ‘nonsense’ or ‘deception’ (7) 21 A breach, especially in the unity of a church (6) 23 An event or incident that is
not repeated (3-3) 26 Martin, English writer who published the autobiographical novel Inside Story in 2020 (4)