GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 A flexible packaging material of two or more layers held together by an adhesive (8) 9 A cell that sends message to
and from the brain (6) 10 Character in the TV sitcom Friends who is a palaeontologist (4,6) 11 Marine crustacean whose types in the UK include hermit and pea (4) 12 Steve ____ , U.S. actor who played Bobby Riggs in the 2017 tennis film Battle Of The Sexes (6) 14 Jack ____ , English ex-World Cup winner who managed Ireland’s football team from 1986 to 1996 (8) 15 Large village in the Mole
Valley district of Surrey (7) 17 Nationality of artist and activist Ai Weiwei born in 1957 (7) 20 Clint ____ , U.S. actor and director who starred in the 2008 film Gran Torino (8) 22 Set the ____ , to establish the dominant principles or themes of future action (6) 24 ____ rags, informal term for clothes for a special occasion (4) 25 An injury that damages the skin but none of the body’s internal organs (5,5) 27 Gregory ____ , U.S. singer/ songwriter who was nominated for Best R&B album Grammy in 2020 for All Rise (6) 28 An object of abhorrence (8)
DOWN
1 ____ Faith, English singer/ songwriter who was a coach on The Voice UK in 2016 (6) 2 ____ Saigon, musical that includes the song The Movie In My Mind (4) 3 An evergreen shrub with brilliant foliage whose varieties include japonica and williamsi (8) 4 Part of a horse’s leg where a tuft of hair grows above the hoof (7) 5 ____ Bocelli, Italian tenor who became completely blind at the age of twelve (6) 6 The juiciness of food,
especially fruit or meat (10) 7 Rotten ____ , website set up in 1998 that aggregates TV and film reviews (8) 13 A former levy on death in the UK that was eventually replaced by inheritance tax (6,4) 16 Infectious disease that was officially declared eradicated from the world in 1980 (8) 18 Words of support traditionally expressed in the chambers of the UK Parliament (4,4) 19 ____ gland, an organ producing various hormones that is above the kidneys (7) 21 English university whose colleges include Balliol and Keble (6) 23 Codename for the wartime operation to evacuate Allied soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 (6) 26 Island in Hawaii that is the site of Pearl Harbor (4)
SOLUTION TOMORROW