GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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6 Spanish national art museum in Madrid (5) 7 A conspicuous object denoting a locality or serving as a guide (8) 10 Like a divine messenger in purity or beauty (7) 11 2014 film starring Michael Keaton that won the Oscar for Best Picture (7) 12 Jack, piratical captain in the Pirates Of The Caribbean film series (7) 13 Dick, U.S. actor in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (3,4) 14 ____ Trophy, prize awarded to the series winner of Strictly (11) 19 ____ Canal, waterway that separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland (7) 21 An ascending current of warm air (7) 23 Traditional name of a Czech city famous for an eponymous pale lager (7) 25 ____ Fathers, group of Puritan settlers who created the first permanent colony in New England in 1620 (7) 26 The centre of a darts board divided into an inner and outer ring (5,3) 27 ____ Campbell, Long Lost Family TV presenter (5)

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1 Chinese classical pianist born in 1982 (4,4) 2 Pauline, EastEnders character played by Wendy Richard (6) 3 The 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, created after the first Jacobite rebellion of 1715 (5,5) 4 A rebuff or refusal (4) 5 One of Snow White’s seven dwarfs (6) 6 Songs Of ____ , religious TV programme first aired in 1961 (6) 8 Lin-Manuel, U.S. composer and playwright of Hamilton (7) 9 Mountain range in South America (5) 13 Max, Belgian-born Dutch Formula One racing driver (10) 15 Warwickshire right-handed batsman who last played for England in 2015 (3,4) 16 A pithy humorous poem of five lines (8) 17 Informal term for strikebreakers (5) 18 Unusually rich-sounding or resonant (6) 20 A straight line from the centre to the circumference of a circle (6) 22 ____ Road, Leeds United’s home ground (6) 24 Solid fat from the kidneys and loins of some animals used in cooking (4)

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