GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
8 Field athletics event in which Javier Sotomayor is the world record holder (4,4) 9 Bridget Jones: The Edge Of ____, second film in the series starring Renee Zellweger (6) 10 A hackneyed phrase (6) 11 To assist a vehicle driver by planning a route and map reading (8) 12 Stationery items for fastening pieces of paper (8) 13 Trouble and ____, Cockney rhyming slang for wife (6) 14 The reticulated python is native to this continent (4) 16 UK rock band fronted by Brett Anderson, who were part of the 1990s Britpop scene (5) 17 A building with machinery for grinding grain into flour (4) 18 Paul Michael, actor who played Starsky in 1970s TV series Starsky & Hutch (6) 20 The country that a person treats as their permanent home (8) 23 Informal term for a short sleep to restore one’s mental alertness (5,3) 24 A herbaceous plant of the pea family with three-lobed leaves (6) 25 The Little Mermaid, by Edvard Eriksen, is a noted one (6) 26 ____ unit, area in a hospital providing care for prematurely born babies (8)
DOWN
1 Colour in the rainbow that has the shortest wavelength (6) 2 A round yellowish edible seed, widely used as a pulse (8) 3 ____ Levy, actor who plays Johnny Rose in Schitt’s Creek (6) 4 Musical based on pools winner Viv Nicholson that premiered in 1998 (5,5,5) 5 A deep fissure in a glacier or ice sheet (8) 6 A large building for housing aircraft (6) 7 A long word or phrase that is difficult to say (8) 15 Betrayals of principles for reasons of expedience (4-4) 16 Song by rappers Dave and Central Cee that was a UK No. 1 hit in 2023 (8) 17 Shane, late musician who was the lead singer of Celtic punk band The Pogues (8) 19 An investigator or private detective (6) 21 Emmanuel, France’s youngest head of state since Napoleon I (6) 22 Scope or room to manoeuvre (6)
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