GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 An ____ Husband, play by Oscar Wilde first performed in 1895 (5) 7 Plain or unsophisticated (8) 10 Joseph ____ , actor who plays Commander Waterford in TV drama series The Handmaid’s Tale (7) 11 Album by British-U.S. rock band Fleetwood Mac released in 1977 (7) 12 An expert in music, especially a celebrated conductor running an orchestra or opera house (7) 13 A large aquatic herbivorous animal of the warm parts of the Atlantic and the rivers of Brazil (7) 14 One who completely abstains from drinking alcohol (11) 19 Village in Wiltshire noted for its Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles (7) 21 A greatest hits album by English boy band Take That released in 2018 (7) 23 A hotel in Spain owned and run by the Government (7) 25 Second child of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle born in 2021 (7) 26 Callum ____ , Celtic FC midfielder who scored Scotland’s only goal in Euros 2020 (8) 27 A jump executed in skateboarding by pressing the foot down on the tail of the board (5)

DOWN

1 A large building in Scotland constructed or adapted to be let in portions to many tenants (8) 2 Mercury is the smallest one in our solar system (6) 3 Branch of science that deals with the normal functioning of living organisms (10) 4 A ruler or chieftain in various Islamic countries (4) 5 Month of the year named after the first emperor of Rome (6) 6 Notoriety (6) 8 Highly original and influential or key to the understanding of a subject (7) 9 The coastal town of Brightlingsea is in this historic English county (5) 13 A songbird with a brown streaky back and often yellow and black underparts (6,4) 15 The Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean belong to this South American country (7) 16 Term for the declining industrial heartland of the U. S. Midwest, including its steel-producing towns (4,4) 17 Mr ____ , a bright yellow circle with a wide smile created in 1971 by Roger Hargreaves (5) 18 ____ Beach, coastal resort in the U.S. state of South Carolina noted for its Sky Wheel (6) 20 To make wealthy (6) 22 The colour of the ball worth two points in snooker (6) 24 A meat and tomato sauce in Italian cookery (4)

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