GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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6 Emma, actress who played Abigail Masham in The Favourite (5) 7 Person who supervises a job or workforce (8) 10 Conductor Mariss Jansons had this nationality (7) 11 Richard, British evolutionary biologist who published The God Delusion in 2006 (7) 12 Seagull in the 1989 film The Little Mermaid (7) 13 Hans, court painter to King Henry VIII (7) 14 Irish stand-up comedian and Mock The Week presenter (4,1,6) 19 Remote control device for a television (7) 21 South African political party founded in 1975 mainly supported by Zulus (7) 23 A usually dry white wine from Italy (7) 25 U.S. indie folk band founded in 2006 by Justin Vernon (3,4) 26 Thor’s hammer in Norse mythology (8) 27 Photographer Patrick Lichfield belonged to this aristocratic family (5)

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1 German city home to the Westfalenstadion and the U-Tower (8) 2 Lleyton, Australian tennis player who won the Wimbledon men’s singles in 2002 (6) 3 Inaugural winner of the women’s Olympic marathon in Los Angeles in 1984 (4,6) 4 Judge John _ _ _ _ , TV legal drama series starring Martin Shaw (4) 5 Magistrate who superintended public buildings in ancient Rome (6) 6 1984 fantasy romcom starring Tom Hanks (6) 8 Nadia, actress who won the second series of Celebrity Masterchef in 2007 (7) 9 Sanskrit term for any yoga pose (5) 13 Pennsylvania’s state capital (10) 15 Davy, Grand National winning jockey on Tiger Roll in 2018 and 2019 (7) 16 One supporting a policy of protecting indigenous culture from external influences (8) 17 Herbaceous plant whose name derives from the Greek for flame (5) 18 Earl, U.S. Supreme Court justice who led the commission investigating JFK’s assassination (6) 20 Native American people once led by Manuelito, also called the Diné (6) 22 Cumbrian town noted for its mint cake (6) 24 The only landlocked departement in Normandy (4)