GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A person who makes or deals in candles (8) 5 Mesopotamian prophet rebuked by his ass when hired to curse the Israelites (6) 10 The radius is a bone in this part of the body (7) 11 Ruling royal house of France 1830-1848 (7) 12 St ____ , Welsh place given official city status in 2012 (5) 13 The upper number in a vulgar fraction (9) 14 Horseracing on racecourses with jumps (8,4) 18 South Africa’s national judicial capital (12) 21 A drug that reduces the effect of pain (9) 23 Moral character of a group or activity (5) 24 Country that knocked out England in UEFA Euro 2016 (7) 25 British singer/songwriter who collaborated with Kanye West on American Boy in 2008 (7) 26 Shaped like a sword (6) 27 U.S. rock band noted for We Built This City (8)

DOWN

1 Long-sleeved garment, reaching to the ankles, worn in the Middle East (anglicised sp.) (6) 2 Spanish goalkeeper who joined Liverpool in 2019 (6) 3 Muscular division between the chest and abdomen (9) 4 Byname of the English king who was Ethelred the Unready’s son (6,8) 6 Larry, U.S. harmonica player (5) 7 Plant whose spiny leaf was used as a decoration in the Corinthian order of architecture (8) 8 Alfieri, Ernesto and Ettore, Italian brothers who founded a car company in 1914 (8) 9 A card-drawing space in Monopoly that traditionally occupies the second space after Go (9,5) 15 Grace Road is a cricket ground in this city (9) 16 A substance used to clean by scratching and grinding (8) 17 Widows of titled men who continue to enjoy some rank or property (8) 19 U.S. Civil War battle of 1862 in Tennessee (6) 20 ____ in the Back, debut studio album by Elbow released in 2001 (6) 22 Russell, British astrologer born in 1951 (5)