GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 ____ Cadiz, oil tanker that ran aground off Brittany in 1978 (5) 7 The Heroes Of _____ , 1965 war film starring Kirk Douglas (8) 10 Spion Kop in 1900 was a battlesite in this conflict (4,3) 11 Mexican state and variety of chili pepper (7) 12 A hair wash (7) 13 Hunstanton and Cromer are seaside resorts in this English county (7) 14 The Tale Of Mrs. ____ , book by Beatrix Potter about a hedgehog washerwoman (5-6) 19 Kind of jazz piano music invented in the U.S. in the early 1900s (7) 21 Jools, English pianist and bandleader noted for his annual V hootenanny (7) 23 _____ Castle, British royal residence in the county of Berkshire (7) 25 _____ Awards, annual London theatre prizes named after the National Theatre’s first artistic director (7) 26 One who habitually attends the theatre (8) 27 Judge, comic book franchise that first appeared in 1977 (5)

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1 Alien:____ , 2017 film, the second of that franchise’s prequel series (8) 2 A style of vocal music, named for the use of nonsense phrases as backing (3-3) 3 A fixed conventional or stock image or a person or thing that conforms to it (10) 4 A spot or stain of ink (4) 5 Hey ____ , phrase announcing the completion of a magical trick (6) 6 Woman who leads a convent of nuns (6) 8 Hosni, successor to Anwar Sadat as President of Egypt (7) 9 Willy, factory owner in Roald Dahl’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (5) 13 Australian TV soap set in Ramsay Street, first broadcast in 1985 (10) 15 Coastal seaport on the south bank of the Humber Estuary (7) 16 A person who conducts oral or practical tests of students (8) 17 Gordon, British Labour prime minister 2007-10 (5) 18 Dear or beloved (6) 20 Inspector George ____ , TV crime drama series in which Martin Shaw played the title role (6) 22 Owners of Scottish estates (6) 24 Joe, English cricket captain born in Sheffield in 1990 (4)