GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Maria, former Brazilian tennis player (5) 7 Rough and violent behaviour (8) 10 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Square Garden, indoor arena in New York City (7) 11 Stuart, 2015 world snooker champion (7) 12 Song released by Toto in 1982 (7) 13 Don, Hotel Rwanda actor (7) 14 The Very Hungry _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , children’s book by Eric Carle (11) 19 VS, 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature winner (7) 21 Disputed region in the north of the Indian subcontinent (7) 23 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Howard, English stand-up comedian (7) 25 Mike, The Graduate director (7) 26 An island in Gulliver’s Travels (8) 27 Long-handled spoon used for serving soup (5)

DOWN

1 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ dome, hemispherical thin-shell structure patented by R. Buckminster Fuller (8) 2 Ben, The Alchemist playwright (6) 3 Comic actor, born Arthur Jefferson in 1890 (4,6) 4 Onion-shaped root that grows into a flower (4) 5 Desert _ _ _ _ _ _ , iconic grey steeplechasewinning racehorse (6) 6 Grace, U.S. mezzo-soprano opera singer (6) 8 Sally, 1992 Olympic gold medalist in 400m hurdles (7) 9 _____ Heard, U.S. actress formerly married to Johnny Depp (5) 13 2000 stop-motion animated comedy film (7,3) 15 Rhyming slang for thief (3-4) 16 Drink of a molasses-based spirit, hot water, sugar and spices (3,5) 17 The Hunting Of The _____ , Lewis Carroll poem (5) 18 French town noted for its perfume industry (6) 20 Soft layer of material inside a shoe (6) 22 Small implement for cutting crops (6) 24 U.S. TV drama series about airplane crash survivors (4)

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