GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Restriction on a website to users who have made a subscription for access (7)

7 Cathedral city in Somerset where most of the filming for 2007 film Hot Fuzz took place (5)

9 A unit of length equal to

one twelfth of a foot (4)

10 A hollow object used to

contain something (10)

11 A low house having

only one storey (8)

13 A young cow that has not

given birth to a calf (6)

15 To argue with someone

without marked hostility (4)

17 To make minor adjustments to one’s hair, make-up or clothes (5)

18 ____ Dix, German painter noted for his depictions of Weimar Germany (4)

19 To mollycoddle

or pamper (6)

20 The upper part of the stern

of a wooden ship (8)

23 Stage musical first performed in 1989 that includes a helicopter scene (4,6)

26 A reflex act of opening one’s mouth on account of boredom or tiredness (4)

27 Gary, manager appointed coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC in 2023 (5)

28 Title formerly given to the eldest son of the king of France (7)

DOWN

1 Greek philosopher and mathematician who founded his own brotherhood (10)

2 Pedro Alvares, explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil (6)

3 A group of countries who

have formed an alliance (4)

4 Multi-Coloured ____, children’s TV series whose presenters included Keith Chegwin (4,4)

5 The longer of the two bones

in the human forearm (4)

6 Animated TV series about

a family of penguins (5)

8 Having assets in excess

of liabilities (7)

12 Joint in the body technically known as the radiocarpal (5)

14 Jazz song by George and Ira Gershwin written for the 1930 musical

Girl Crazy (1,3,6)

16 A condition or qualification attached to an agreement (7)

17 Hidden or unsuspected

dangers (8)

21 A dish in which small pieces of food are dipped into a hot sauce (6)

22 Jonnie, late TV presenter of

Escape To The Country (5)

24 An oblique angle or slant (4)

25 Andre, French author who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature (4)

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