GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Large lake straddling the California-Nevada border (5) 7 A formal or high-flown expression of praise (8) 10 U.S.-born British singer/songwriter whose debut EP was The Milk & The Honey in 2017 (7) 11 Daniel, architect who designed New York’s Flatiron Building (7) 12 Kwame, Ghanaian nationalist leader overthrown in 1966 (7) 13 Agamemnon was king of this ancient Greek city (7) 14 Science regarding atmospheric phenomena for forecasting weather (11) 19 Sofía, actress who plays Gloria Delgado in Modern Family (7) 21 Lively movement occupying second or third place in a symphony (7) 23 The art of clipping trees into artificial shapes (7) 25 A small sealed glass containing a hypodermic dose (7) 26 U.S. president nicknamed Silent Cal (8) 27 Irish racehorse that won three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups (5)

DOWN

1 Vertical groove between the base of the nose and the upper lip (8) 2 One of a pair of moray eels in the 1989 Disney film The Little Mermaid (6) 3 Valentina, Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman to travel into space (10) 4 Informal term for a strikebreaker (4) 5 Andrew, actor who played Mark Latimer in Broadchurch (6) 6 Style of pop music with a fast, repetitive dance beat (6) 8 Its national flag has a red field with a green pentagram in the centre (7) 9 A brown earth used as a pigment (5) 13 Representations of the lunar surface (10) 15 Physical or mental work of a laborious kind (7) 16 Skull cap worn by Jewish males (8) 17 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina is a song from this musical (5) 18 Geological epoch that derives its name from the Greek for dawn (6) 20 Humphry, English landscape gardener born in 1752 (6) 22 ____ Cup, international mixed gender indoor tennis tournament played in Australia (6) 24 Small green humanoid alien in the Star Wars series (4)

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