GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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6 One paying for an event in return for advertisement (7) 7 Film starring Thandie Newton and Matt Dillon, Best Picture Oscar winner in 2006 (78th Awards) (5) 9 Northern Irish county whose largest town is Bangor (4) 10 Type of heavy draught horse originally bred in Scotland (10) 11 Ed, British explorer who walked the length of the river Amazon in 2010 (8) 13 A great flood or inundation (6) 15 Unit of land measurement equal to 160 square rods (4) 17 Additional playing card in a pack (5) 18 Small, semiaquatic carnivorous mammal resembling a stoat (4) 19 A brood of chickens (6) 20 U.S. seaport in Georgia founded in 1733 (8) 23 Fictional town in Kansas where Superman was raised (10) 26 Weaker element at the end of a team’s batting order in cricket (4) 27 Larry, U.S. sci-fi writer noted for Ringworld (5) 28 A word of similar meaning to another (7)

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1 The Black Prince’s wife and mother of King Richard II (4,2,4) 2 Nickname of England ex-defender Stuart Pearce (6) 3 Effie, Scottish painter married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais (4) 4 Roy, actor who played the police chief in Jaws (8) 5 Stephen, osteopath involved in the Profumo scandal (4) 6 Andrew, actor who played Jim Moriarty in Sherlock (5) 8 Element like chlorine that forms a salt by direct union with a metal (7) 12 Paul, French composer noted for the orchestral work The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (5) 14 Squares of sponge cake dipped in melted chocolate and grated coconut popular in Australia (10) 16 Seamus, right back for Everton and Ireland (7) 17 English mathematician who invented a diagram for representing relationships between sets (4,4) 21 Fourth studio album by Ultravox released in 1980 (6) 22 A well-established principle (5) 24 ____ Strauss, German-born founder of U.S. dry goods company that later sold jeans (4) 25 Middle child of Homer and Marge Simpson (4)