GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Overabundance of nutrients (8) 5 Joshua, Canadian seaman and first person to sail around the world single-handedly (6) 10 Linus, US chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962 (7) 11 Lack of oxygen reaching the body’s tissues (7) 12 The highest mountain on this country’s mainland is Mulhacen (5) 13 A high kick forward with a rush to the landing place of the ball in rugby union (9) 14 Branch of science studying the forces acting on bodies in a flow of air or gas (12) 18 Picturesque village in east Cheshire (8,4) 21 Trip to cultural sites in mainland Europe formerly undertaken as part of education (5,4) 23 Charles, The Cloister And The Hearth novelist (5) 24 David, actor who played Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series (7) 25 Mortimer, British archaeologist born in 1890 (7) 26 Nancy, US First Lady 1981 to 1989 (6) 27 Red giant star in the constellation Boötes (8)

DOWN

1 Article revealing something discreditable (6) 2 Christine, British tennis player who won the French Championships women’s singles in 1959 (6) 3 Competitor in a sport traversing rough country using a map and compass (9) 4 The Prince of Wales’s home in Gloucestershire (9,5) 6 Slang term for cheeky (5) 7 A boat’s helmsperson (8) 8 An ungenerous or small-minded quality (8) 9 17th-century religious conflict in Europe that included the Battle of Lützen (6,5,3) 15 System used to assess a newborn baby’s health named after a US anaesthetist (5,4) 16 Lucy, who plays Chas Dingle in Emmerdale (8) 17 Chad’s capital (8) 19 Roger, Queen’s drummer (6) 20 Football club that last won the Scottish Cup in 2012 (6) 22 _____ Owens, U.S. zoologist and author of Where The Crawdads Sing (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW