DOUBLE TROUBLE
Test yourself with our general knowledge double crossword ... one grid fits all
ACROSS
1 City in Florida (5) 4 Undercoats of paint (7) 8 Spinning (7) 9 Seaside esplanades (5) 10 Bees’ home (4) 11 Two ticks (3) 12 Narrow sea channel (4)
15 Classical form of dance (6) 16 Country, capital Warsaw (6) 19 Christmas season (4) 21 Animated Welsh fireman (3) 22 Warm and sweeten (wine) (4) 26 Did nothing (5) 27 Fitted (wardrobe) (5-2) 28 Patrick ___, X-Men
actor (7) 29 ___ Island, former immigration point in New York harbour (5)
DOWN
1 Make a pair (5) 2 Incoming flight (7)
3 Wading bird with a long curved bill (4) 4 Young porker (6) 5 Children’s game (1-3) 6 Very hard dark wood (5) 7 Dangle, hang (7) 13 I agree (3) 14 Female elephant (3) 15 Cowboy robbers (7)
17 Endwise meeting or junction (7) 18 Hare-like animal (6) 20 First name of singer Ms Goulding (5) 23 Parts of a chain (5) 24 Brainwave (4) 25 Administrative region in East Scotland (4)
ACROSS
1 ___ Vice, 1980s TV series (5) 4 First textbooks (7) 8 Changing direction (7) 9 Albert Hall concerts (5) 10 ___ of activity, busy place (4) 11 Dry (of wine) (3) 12 ___ MacLachlan, Twin Peaks actor (4) 15 ___ Shoes, book by Noël Streatfeild (6) 16 Country invaded on September 1, 1939 (6) 19 ___ Coward, playwright (4) 21 ___ Taylor-Wood, director of the John Lennon biopic
Nowhere Boy (3) 22 Island of the Inner Hebrides (4) 26 Ticked over (5) 27 Inherent, innate (5-2) 28 ___ Granger, Bhowani Junction star (7) 29 Webb ___ Cup, rugby trophy (5)
DOWN
1 ___ Point, 2005 film starring Scarlett Johansson (5) 2 ___ of the Queen of Sheba, music by Handel (7) 3 Sacred Egyptian bird (4) 4 Pooh’s companion in the AA Milne stories (6) 5 1960s secret agent drama series starring Robert Culp (1,3) 6 ___ Eyes, Everly Brothers hit (5) 7 Adjourn (7) 13 Prog-rock group of the 1970s (3) 14 Animal such as Ermintrude in
The Magic Roundabout (3) 15 RAF term for enemy planes (7) 17 Boundary of lands (7) 18 ___, Run, John Updike novel (6) 20 Girl in The Water-Babies (5) 23 Coastal golf course (5) 24 Concept (4) 25 Small flute (4)