GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
6 A full-bodied golden-coloured sherry (7) 7 Jesse, U.S. athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics (5) 9 Zoe, Chris Evans’ successor as host of BBC Radio 2’s Breakfast Show (4) 10 Movable platform used for conveying food and dishes at meals (4,6) 11 Long-tailed animal of the family Herpestidae noted for its skill in killing venomous snakes (8) 13 Aaron, Welsh midfielder for Juventus who previously played for Arsenal (6) 15 ___ Redding, U.S. soul singer/ songwriter noted for (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay (4)
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1 Collective term for six elements, including helium, that are almost never chemically reactive (5,5) 2 A jinx or bringer of bad luck (6) 3 A pole that controls the position of a sail (4) 4 Battle of ____ Field, last significant conflict of the Wars of the Roses in 1485 (8) 5 Another name for the abominable snowman, a legendary apelike Himalayan creature (4) 6 Sakari, Finnish chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2013 (5) 8 Rachel, English singer and former member of S Club 7 (7) 12 ____ Doolittle, Cockney flower girl in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (5)
17 John, Scottish politician who succeeded Neil Kinnock as Labour leader in 1992 (5) 18 Pat, Australian tennis player who won the 1987 Wimbledon men’s singles title (4) 19 A midday or afternoon nap (6) 20 ____ smokie, an unsplit smoked haddock (8) 23 The X Factor winner in 2006 noted for her debut album Spirit (5,5) 26 Kappa’s predecessor in the Greek alphabet (4) 27 ____ Of Athens, Shakespeare tragedy about a misanthrope (5) 28 Jason, English actor who played Frank Martin in the first three parts of the Transporter film franchise (7)
14 Small one or two-seater aircraft with fixed or flexible wings, carrying little weight (10) 16 Three-pronged spear carried by the sea god Neptune or Poseidon (7) 17 Sylvester, actor who played the title character in the Rambo film franchise (8) 21 Bay of ____ , wide inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean indenting the western European coast (6) 22 Symbol representing a family, clan or tribe (5) 24 Finding ___ , 2003 computeranimated underwater adventure film (4) 25 Dominic, actor who played Jimmy McNulty in The Wire (4)