GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 A piece of writing in which a certain letter or letters are excluded (8) 9 The winged fruit of a deciduous tree in the genus Fraxinus (3,3) 10 Justice League director (4,6) 11 South ___ , second largest island in the Outer Hebrides (4) 12 Justus von, German chemist who specialised in analysing organic compounds (6) 14 In a direction contrary to the flow of a river (8) 15 Sharleen, lead singer of the rock band Texas (7) 17 Libellous slander (7) 20 English tenor and musical actor born in 1973 (5,3) 22 Thessaloniki is this country’s second largest city (6) 24 British queen married to Prince George of Denmark (4) 25 Large carnivorous dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period (10) 27 Billy, South African-born British entrepreneur who pioneered holiday camps (6) 28 Captain Nemo’s submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (8)
DOWN
1 Capital of Rwanda (6) 2 Dominic, ex-Derbyshire, Lancashire and England allrounder (4) 3 Summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India (8) 4 Mozart’s middle name (7) 5 Keith, ventriloquist noted for performing with Orville the Duck (6) 6 Pickled cabbage, usually served with meat; the French form of sauerkraut (10) 7 Olivier, French composer and organist noted for his religious themes (8) 13 Sandro, Madonna of the Pomegranate painter (10) 16 King Claudius’ counsellor in Hamlet (8) 18 ____ Pugin, English architect who co-designed the Palace of Westminster (8) 19 Lowland river that rises in Northamptonshire (7) 21 John, Room at the Top novelist (6) 23 Meeting of a U.S. political party to nominate candidates (6) 26 Family of computer operating systems developed at Bell Labs in the 1970s (4)