GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Symphony orchestra founded in 1858 in Manchester (5) 7 To sell separately parts of a larger package of products or services (8) 10 Louis, police chief played by Claude Rains in the 1943 film Casablanca (7) 11 Italian city that was once the capital of the Western Roman Empire (7) 12 Football club that appointed Sean Dyche as manager in 2023 (7) 13 Pieces of low-lying land reclaimed from the sea in the Netherlands (7) 14 1965 James Bond film featuring the villain Emilio Largo (11) 19 1987 song by Pet Shop Boys that was their second UK No. 1 (3,1,3) 21 Prone to sudden and usually temporary malfunctions (7) 23 U.S. state that contains the Rosa Parks Museum (7) 25 Ignorant of or uninterested in foreign cultures, ideas, etc. (7) 26 Single-seat fighter aircraft created by Supermarine prior to World War II (8) 27 Darragh, Chaser nicknamed The Menace, who joined the show in 2020 (5)

DOWN

1 David, UK politician who served as Tony Blair’s second home secretary (8) 2 Francis, born in 1936, is the

first one to be Pope (6) 3 Town in the administrative county of Cambridgeshire, UK, on the River Great Ouse (10) 4 Legal alias of the

Archbishops of York (4) 5 Take the ____, phrase meaning ‘to resolve to do something irrevocable’ (6) 6 Jonathan, solicitor who travels to Transylvania in horror novel Dracula (6) 8 A shortish literary work (7) 9 M. Emmet, late actor who played the police chief in 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner (5) 13 A parachute-like canopy attached to a person’s body by harness for flying (10) 15 ____ Crow, sitcom written by Ben Elton, based on Shakespeare’s life (7) 16 Nickname of King John based on his poor inheritance prospects (8) 17 Birthplace of actor and ukulele

player George Formby (5) 18 Island country whose national flag contains two olive branches (6) 20 Tom, comic writer noted for his

1974 novel Porterhouse Blue (6) 22 Arched part of a person’s foot between the toes and the ankle (6) 24 ____ Khan, ex-light welterweight

boxer born in Bolton in 1986 (4)