GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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6 A person employed to look after the passengers on an aircraft, ship or train (7) 7 2016 animated film that includes the song How Far I’ll Go (5) 9 A sum of money that is owed (4) 10 An orchestral suite by English composer Gustav Holst that contains seven movements (3,7) 11 Where The ____ Sing, 2018 novel by U.S. author Delia Owens that is partly a murder mystery (8) 13 Robbie, former Liverpool and England striker (6) 15 The tail of a hare or rabbit (4) 17 An Indian dish of meat or vegetables cooked in a sauce of spices and usually served with rice (5) 18 Organ in the body that contains tiny air sacs called alveoli (4) 19 Bull ____, 1988 romantic comedy film featuring a U.S. baseball team (6) 20 U.S. singer-songwriter who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature (3,5) 23 A handheld digital pet that was created in Japan and first released in 1996 (10) 26 Castrated bulls that are used as draught animals (4) 27 Town and former Royal Burgh on the River Lossie that is the administrative centre of Moray (5) 28 ____ tense, one that expresses an action that is currently happening (7)

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1 ____ beetle, a woodboring one that can infest the timber of old buildings (10) 2 ____ Washington, the First Lady of the first U.S. president, born in 1731 (6) 3 A tool with a blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting wood (4) 4 Insignificant people or things (5,3) 5 To mend a hole in knitted material by interweaving yarn with a needle (4) 6 A barbed fork for catching fish (5) 8 Hunter in Greek mythology who was turned into a stag and torn to pieces by his own dogs (7) 12 Countryside that is covered with stunted bushes or trees (5) 14 Sam, amateur jockey who won the 2022 Grand National in his last race before retirement (5-5) 16 A vigorous campaign for political, social or religious change (7) 17 A thing that is made up of two or more separate elements (8) 21 The Old ____ , the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales in London (6) 22 A warning of danger (5) 24 2012 film starring Ben Affleck about the escape of U.S. diplomats from Iran (4) 25 A point of land that juts into a sea or lake (4)

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