General Knowledge Crossword

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ACROSS

1. Cylinder containing a vacuum in which high-energy electrons strike a metal target (1-3,4) 5. Tribal conference amongst Native Americans (6) 9. Peer or aristocrat, a person of title or status (8) 10. Force one’s presence or views on another (6) 12. Ancient Greek order of architecture (5) 13. Money for financing corruption (5,4) 14. Adjective relating to the third president of the USA (12) 19. Hawk that feeds on the larvae of bees and wasps (5-7) 22. Insect of the order Odonata (9) 25. Piece of equipment for separating lumps from powder (5) 26. Asphyxia, cessation of breathing (6) 27. Instrument for altering electrical resistance (8) 28. Neck feather or hair of birds and animals (6) 29. Curtain hung over a doorway (8)

DOWN

1. Place described in Coleridge poem where Kubla Khan decreed the building of a ‘stately pleasure-dome’ (6) 2. Reddish-brown colour (6) 3. Act of wilful betrayal (9) 4. Alloy of copper and zinc (5) 6. Slang word meaning speed or vitality (5) 7. Colloquial word for a crime mystery story (8) 8. Exerting or maintaining power or authority (8) 11. Colourless rock-forming mineral (6) 15. Covered with soft light materials (6) 16. Rhizome of an iris prepared and used as perfume (5-4) 17. One of Daniel’s companions miraculously saved in the fiery furnace (8) 18. Verse to aid memory (8) 20. Vessel for boiling water (6) 21. Soft maggot, especially one used as bait in fishing (6) 23. Town in Surrey near Epsom (5) 24. Brutish or obscenely coarse person (5)