GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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6 Pallid or whitish (5)

7 Describing an interior design without dividing walls or partitions (4,4)

10 The lower edge of

a garment (7)

11 A fetter for the hand (7)

12 An Italian dish of rice cooked in stock with ingredients such as meat or seafood (7)

13 Journalists in charge of newspapers or sections of them (7)

14 A flat apparatus fitted with two curved handgrips on which gymnasts swing their body (6,5)

19 Ruth ____ , crime writer whose first published novel was From Doon With Death in 1964 (7)

21 Strait of ____ , body of water separating the Malay peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra (7)

23 Roy ____ , character played by David Neilson in Coronation Street (7)

25 A motor vehicle, often with large rear wheels, for drawing farm machinery (7)

26 Another side to a personality that people rarely see (5,3)

27 Niall ____ , Irish member of One Direction whose first solo album was Flicker released in 2017 (5)

DOWN

1 A sign with the hand indicating approval or best wishes for success (6-2)

2 To consecrate with oil (6)

3 To show compliance or obedience like a dog with its owner (4,2,4)

4 A division of the academic or school year (4)

5 Jadon ____ , English footballer who joined Manchester United FC from Borussia Dortmund in 2021 (6)

6 On land, as from the sea (6)

8 One of a pair of baskets placed over the rear wheel of a bicycle (7)

9 Nationality of operatic pop mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins (5)

13 Removal of a body from the ground after burial (10)

15 English dance music band noted for their 1993 hit Moving On Up (1,6)

16 Latin expression meaning ‘and the rest, and so on’ (2,6)

17 A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal (5)

18 ____ Clarke, Northern Irish golfer who captained Europe in the 2016 Ryder Cup (6)

20 A long, thin strip of pasta or a similar flour paste, eaten with a sauce or in a soup (6)

22 To dislike intensely or hate (6)

24 Nicolas ____ , English director whose films included Walkabout and The Man Who Fell To Earth (4)

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