GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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6 An Indian side dish of yoghurt, often containing chopped cucumber (5)

7 Mike, cricket commentator and former England

Test captain (8)

10 A small fish of southern Asian coasts, dried and used as food (7)

11 Gavin, character played by Mathew Horne in Gavin & Stacey (7)

12 A piece of footage not used in the final broadcast version of a film etc. (7)

13 A fiasco or ignominious

failure (7)

14 Send ____, song written by Stephen Sondheim for the musical A Little Night Music (2,3,6)

19 A defensive wall of a

castle or walled city (7)

21 One who drives a usually horse-drawn vehicle for transporting goods (7)

23 Kate, detective created by the crime writer Martina Cole (7)

25 English city in which actress Olivia Colman was born in 1974 (7)

26 An indigenous people of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean (8)

27 Fabian, Swiss central defender who joined Newcastle United FC in 2018 (5)

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1 Paul, actor who played a struggling writer in the 2005 film Sideways (8)

2 Camila Cabello’s UK

No. 1 single from 2017, about her birth city (6)

3 Persuasion by sustained

coaxing or flattery (10)

4 SI units of electrical

resistance (4)

5 ____ acid, colourless substance also called methanoic acid, found in insects and nettles (6)

6 A long, narrow strip of fabric used for decoratively tying something (6)

8 Classic children’s show featuring puppets such as Zippy and Bungle (7)

9 ____ Of The North, sculpture

in Gateshead (5)

13 TV presenter who hosted

Supermarket Sweep (4,6)

15 A small cafe where light

refreshments are served (7) 16 Port ____, Merseyside model village designed to house soap factory workers (8)

17 A blunt-edged surgical instrument used for exploring a wound (5)

18 Jonathan, commander played by Scott Bakula in Star Trek: Enterprise (6)

20 Audie, U.S. World War II hero who starred in The Red Badge Of Courage (6)

22 Obtrusively bright

and showy (6)

24 Channel Island ruled by the Chief Pleas parliament (4)

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