GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 Romantic song sung under a lady’s window by a suitor (8) 9 Burdens (6) 10 Konstantinos, four-time Greek prime minister (10) 11 Brazilian midfielder for Manchester United (4) 12 The first U.S. space station launched in 1973 (6) 14 Name of march composed by Johann Strauss Snr dedicated to an Austrian field marshal (8) 15 Michigan’s state capital (7) 17 Term for a region including China and Japan (3,4) 20 One of four groups in a statistical distribution (8) 22 Tinie, British rapper and singer born in 1988 (6) 24 Cabbage salad (4) 25 Country that won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011 (10) 27 Kenneth, John Major’s second Chancellor (6) 28 Rod carried by the Greek god Hermes (8)

DOWN

1 Nottinghamshire town containing an English Civil War museum (6) 2 Fantasy princess played by Lucy Lawless in a U.S. TV series (4) 3 Edward, character who marries Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch (8) 4 Charles, Monégasque Formula One racing driver with Ferrari (7) 5 Israel’s secret intelligence service (6) 6 Oceanic current of warm water that comes to north-west Europe (4,6) 7 Robert, Forrest Gump director (8) 13 Pottery with a metallic glaze (10) 16 Ornamental plant with a brilliant yellow spike of flowers in a funnel-like bract (4,4) 18 Substance that inactivates a bacterium or virus (8) 19 Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier published in 1938 (7) 21 ______ Allende, City Of The Beasts novelist (6) 23 Counting frame (6) 26 ____ trail, hiking route that terminates at Machu Picchu (4)

SOLUTION TOMORROW