GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Macabre or morbid (8) 5 Wildly impulsive or crazy (6) 10 ____ Green, British former equestrian who won the Badminton Horse Trials a record six times (7) 11 An unpowered vehicle towed

behind a car or truck (7) 12 Alfred ____, Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the term ‘inferiority feeling’ later called ‘inferiority complex’ (5) 13 Novel by Charles Dickens featuring school superintendent Thomas Gradgrind (4,5) 14 A doctor who specialises in numbing patients before operations (12) 18 A room near the entrance of a public building such as a college occupied by its caretaker (7,5) 21 U.S. actor who played Freddie Mercury in the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (4,5) 23 Italian city in which the country’s National Automobile Museum is located (5) 24 Lacking in accuracy (7) 25 Josh ____, English actor whose films include God’s Own Country and Mothering Sunday (7) 26 Ruud ____, Dutch former footballer who coached Chelsea and Newcastle United FC (6) 27 A figure of a star used in writing and printing, often to indicate omission of words or letters (8)

DOWN

1 ____ Girl, song by Ed Sheeran and Irish folk band Beoga released in 2017 (6) 2 The supernatural world

or its influences (6) 3 Of or relating to a period of time extending far into the future (4-5) 4 TV sitcom starring Jamie Demetriou as an inept agent offering tenancies that first aired in 2018 (5,4,5) 6 To alter a literary work to make it suitable for filming, broadcasting or stage production (5) 7 Country in South America whose coffee farming regions include Armenia and Medellín (8) 8 An organism that lives on or with another species, obtaining food, shelter or other benefit (8) 9 Expression meaning

‘very fast’ (2,1,4,2,5) 15 ____ reel, a lively

Scottish dance (9) 16 ____ Life, British former newspaper noted for its coverage of horse and greyhound racing (8) 17 Oliver ____, English soldier and statesman who made himself Lord Protector in 1653 (8) 19 An independent Islamic sultanate on the northern coast of the island of Borneo (6) 20 A weatherproof jacket

of skin or cloth, with a hood attached (6) 22 U.S. city whose baseball team

are called the Marlins (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW