GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across

1. The edible shoots, including stem and tip or head, of asparagus and broccoli (6)

5. Native people of south-western United States, known for their horse culture (8)

9. Plant often used as companion planting with certain vegetables (8)

10. Revolutionary who deposed Cuba’s president in 1959 (6)

11. Taxi company owned by Steve McDonald and Sally Metcalfe in Coronation Street (10)

12. Meat which is an important ingredient in Italian and French cuisine (4)

13. Springtime plant found in ancient woodlands of Britain and Ireland (8)

16. Foods fed to babies from around the age of four months (6)

17. ___ Cupid, song released by Connie Francis in 1958 (6)

19. A type of dining-room sideboard or cupboard (8)

21. “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called __”: Dan Gable (4)

22. Series of small windows along the top of a church (10)

25. “Quick decisions are ___ decisions”: Sophocles (6)

26. Scottish crime drama featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez (8) 27. Ghostly figures (8)

28. “Vision is the art of __ what is invisible to others”: Jonathan Swift (6)

Down

2. Chris __: actor who starred in Jurassic

World (2015) and The Magnificent Seven

(2016) (5)

3. Type of skirt which flares from the waist (1-4)

4. Popular name for a breed of highland terrier (7)

5. Fictional Benedictine monk in a series of historical murder mysteries written by Edith Pargeter (7)

6. Inflammatory condition caused by a fungus (7)

7. City known as ‘the home of country music’ (9)

8. Real surname of American singersongwriter Bruno Mars (9)

14. Baltic country whose capital city is Vilnius (9)

15. Chess move in which the capturing piece doesn’t replace the captured piece on its square (2,7)

18. English writer who married Catherine Thomson Hogarth in 1836 (7)

19. Food with types including Casu Marzu, Milbenkase and Pule (7)

20. Reinforced holes in leather for a lace to pass through (7)

23. Material used for veils and dresses (5) 24. Protein and enzyme secreted by the kidneys, a central hormone in the control of blood pressure (5)