GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN SEE BELOW
ACROSS
1 Northwestern French region that includes the port of Saint-Malo (8) 5 A large basket usually with a cover, often used at picnics (6) 10 A cause of annoyance, anxiety or irritation (7) 11 Greig, rugby union scrum-half and former captain of Scotland (7) 12 Headingley Cricket Ground is in this city (5) 13 A body of persons or things ranked in grades (9) 14 Government securities held by UK citizens that give money prizes allotted by a draw held at intervals (7,5) 18 People who chant and perform dance routines in support of a sports team (12) 21 Small ornamental turrets, usually culminating in a pyramid or cone (9) 23 ____ Cavell, British nurse executed by the Germans in Belgium in 1915 (5) 24 Abraham, U.S. president first
elected in 1860 (7) 25 Josh, actor who played Lawrence Durrell in the TV drama series The Durrells (7) 26 A bivalve mollusc often
eaten raw as a delicacy (6) 27 The Blind ____ , novel by Margaret Atwood published in 2000 (8)
DOWN
1 Informal term for champagne (6) 2 Jean-Auguste-Dominique, French neoclassical painter born in 1780 (6) 3 One in charge of the funds of a club or public body (9) 4 Holy Island or Lindisfarne belongs to this historic English county (14) 6 ____ Lonsbrough, British swimmer who won gold in the 200m women’s breaststroke at the 1960 Rome Olympics (5) 7 Large, fish-eating waterbirds with an extendible hooked bill to scoop up prey (8) 8 Noisy and disorderly behaviour (8) 9 Song recorded by Elvis Presley in 1956, first sung by Carl Perkins in 1955 (4,5,5) 15 Song sung by Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury and operatic soprano Monserrat Caballé released in 1987 (9) 16 Mexican resort on the Pacific Coast (8) 17 Alex, actor who played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen (8) 19 New York ____ , U.S. football team who share the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey with the Jets (6) 20 ____ Stone, Basic Instinct
and Casino actress (6) 22 Home ____ , 1990 U.S. Christmas comedy film featuring the character Kevin McCallister (5)
SOLUTION TOMORROW