GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Braeburn is a variety of this fruit (5) 7 ‘The opium of the people’ according to Marx (8) 10 Richard, former Top Gear presenter (7) 11 U.S. rock band with Debbie Harry as vocalist (7) 12 Lewis Hamilton won his first F1 drivers’ title with this team (7) 13 Claude, French film director (7) 14 Philosophical work by Plato (3,8) 19 Alfred, French military officer wrongly convicted of treason (7) 21 Person who captures animals for their fur (7) 23 Overs in which batsmen score no runs (7) 25 _______ Bening, U.S. actress married to Warren Beatty (7) 26 Type of Indian cooking baked in a clay oven (8) 27 English painter noted for industrial landscapes (5)

DOWN

1 Musical adapted from Monty Python And The Holy Grail (8) 2 Fabric with a velvet-like pile (6) 3 Antagonist in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (3,7) 4 Thick slice of cake (4) 5 Large South American vulture (6) 6 Reception held at a person’s own house (2-4) 8 Jane, anthropologist noted for her work with chimpanzees (7) 9 Nikola, Serbian-U.S. electrical and mechanical engineer (5) 13 U.S. jazz pianist and bandleader behind One O’Clock Jump (5,5) 15 Harry, Kevin the Teenager comedian (7) 16 South Africa’s legislative capital (4,4) 17 Kaye, Loose Women presenter (5) 18 Vessel that carries blood from the heart (6) 20 ______ Wood, Sin City actor (6) 22 Eve, U.S. portrait photographer (6) 24 Dan, historian and TV presenter (4)

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