GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD ACROSS

6 ____ Ramsey, character played by English actress Julia Goulding in Coronation Street (5) 7 ____ Bulls, professional rugby league team that returned to the Odsal Stadium in June, 2021 (8) 10 A prejudice or form of discrimination based on a person’s appearance (7) 11 Radioactive silvery metal

discovered in 1789 (7) 12 Number represented by the Roman numeral M with a bar above it (7) 13 The exclusion of workers by an employer in an industrial dispute (7) 14 U.S. jazz vocalist born in 1926 whose signature song is I Left My Heart In San Francisco (4,7) 19 U.S. city where the TV sitcom

Frasier is set (7) 21 Letter in the Greek alphabet

that precedes pi (7) 23 Missy, U.S. rapper noted for her 1997 debut studio album Supa Dupa Fly (7) 25 Army captain played by English actor Tim McInnerny in Blackadder Goes Forth (7) 26 A thick mattress used by athletes and gymnasts to absorb the impact of landing (5,3) 27 A wading bird usually with a

white or buff plumage (5)

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1 A person who speaks one

language only (8) 2 Cliff ____, English actor who plays Fred Buckle in the TV period drama Call The Midwife (6) 3 ____ Snowman, another

name for the yeti (10) 4 Red-billed hornbill voiced by Rowan Atkinson in the 1994 animated film The Lion King (4) 5 Character in Twelfth Night who says the line ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ (6) 6 Of ceremonies, marked by

pomp or gravity (6) 8 A woman to whom someone

is engaged to be married (7) 9 Adam, English economist who features on the back of the paper £20 note issued in 2007 (5) 13 Police procedural TV drama that follows the work of the AC-12 Anti-Corruption Unit (4,2,4) 15 ____ oxide, technical term for

laughing gas (7) 16 ____ education, that for students above school age in colleges and universities (8) 17 A minor official responsible for keeping order in English courts (5) 18 Eric, English novelist who created the fictional collie Lassie (6) 20 An attractive or

seductive quality (6) 22 Country whose Eurovision winners have included Alphabeta and Dana International (6) 24 An underground vault for the disposal of dead bodies (4)

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