GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 ____ Rhapsody, song by Queen that begins ‘Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?’ (8) 5 Like a pedestrian (2,4) 10 Musical set in Berlin that won the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival (7) 11 The science or art of preserving health through cleanliness and sanitary practices (7) 12 Key ____, island in the Florida Keys that is home to the steamboat African Queen (5) 13 U.S. city that contains the

Johnny Cash Museum, which opened in 2013 (9) 14 Informal expression meaning ‘to be received with great enthusiasm’ (2,4,1,5) 18 Spanish artist born in 1881 who was noted for his Blue and Rose periods (5,7) 21 A long open vehicle in the past with rows of transverse seats (9) 23 To escape or avoid, especially by guile or trickery (5) 24 Held power as

a monarch (7) 25 Geordie, detective played by Robson Green in the TV crime drama series Grantchester (7) 26 An aide or adviser employed by a public figure, especially to manage publicity (6) 27 Particular forms of a published text, such as a book or newspaper (8)

DOWN

1 A usually metal or plastic fastening for a strap or band that comprises a rim and a tongue (6) 2 ____ Hurkacz, Polish tennis player who beat Roger Federer in the 2021 Wimbledon men’s singles (6) 3 Venetian merchant and explorer noted for his travels in the Mongol empire (5,4) 4 Italian Baroque composer noted for his group of violin concertos The Four Seasons (7,7) 6 Large desert region in

southern Israel (5) 7 To fail to notice (8) 8 Horizontal timbers or the like that connect two rafters in a roof (3,5) 9 Nickname of the U.S. outlaw whose real name was Harry Longabaugh (3,8,3) 15 1992 comedy film starring Whoopi Goldberg as a disguised nun (6,3) 16 The range of a colour

produced by a prism (8) 17 A graze or laceration (8) 19 ____ de Santiago, a set of pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain (6) 20 Iron-headed golf clubs with a broad low-angled face used to create loft (6) 22 ____ Leibovitz, U.S. photographer born in 1949, noted for her celebrity portraits (5)