GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Danny, English rugby union fly-half and full-back who has played for Wasps and Gloucester (8) 9 2009 U.S. sci-fi film starring Sam Worthington as disabled ex-Marine Jake Sully (6) 10 Competitive TV cooking show judged by Gregg Wallace and John Torode (10) 11 Sadiq, Labour politician elected Mayor of London in 2016 (4) 12 John, former TV football commentator whose trademark outfit was a sheepskin coat (6) 14 Number represented by XIX in Roman numerals (8) 15 Reinhold, Italian mountaineer and explorer who made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest in 1980 (7) 17 A yellow, mouse-like Pokémon which stores electricity in its cheeks (7) 20 To fit or join together neatly (8) 22 Actual surname of U.S. singer/songwriter and musician Prince (6) 24 A plant with long tapering leaves and showy flowers, also called fleur-de-lis (4) 25 One giving immediate treatment to a wounded or sick person before full medical attention (5-5) 27 A short sleep (6) 28 Bogey and double bogey are examples of this type of score in golf (5,3)

DOWN

1 British publishing company founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil dedicated to writing on feminist topics (6) 2 A badly behaved child (4) 3 Jennifer, U.S. actress who played Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games films (8) 4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ well, one that is supposed to make desires expressed at it come true (7) 5 William, English explorer who gave his name to a ‘bay’ separating Canada from Greenland (6) 6 Sport played in the U.S. by the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks (10) 7 Town in Galilee that was Jesus’s boyhood home (8) 13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ bridge, one with a roadway hanging on cables stretched between elevated piers (10) 16 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ gland, one that makes substances secreted through a duct to the body’s surface (8) 18 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ key, one that is turned in a motor vehicle to fire the engine (8) 19 Patron saint of firefighters and chimney sweeps (7) 21 _ _ _ _ _ _ Pennyworth, Batman’s butler and assistant (6) 23 The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni are noted ones by Austrian composer Mozart (6) 26 A mountain goat with large, ridged, backwardcurving horns (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW