GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The act of killing a king, especially one’s own (8)

5 A mixture or fusion of disparate elements (4-2)

10 Island in the Balearics whose chief town is Mahón (7)

11 An imaginary animal with a horn growing from its forehead (7)

12 Cardigan Welsh and Pembroke Welsh are breeds of this cattle herding dog (5)

13 County in England that contains Aldershot and Basingstoke (9)

14 A synthetic resin used in the form of flexible foam in home furnishings like carpet underlay (12)

18 The creation of buildings and structures using pieces of rock (12)

21 Describing a triangle that has two equal sides (9)

23 Patti ____, U.S. poet and singer/songwriter noted for her 1975 album Horses (5)

24 Group of people with individual duties in charge of a plane (7)

25 U.S. actor Robert Downey Jr plays this character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (4,3)

26 Hatred (6)

27 A member of the French police force (8)

DOWN

1 Lee ____, U.S. actress who played Damien’s mother in the 1976 horror film The Omen (6)

2 A platform or bridge for a travelling crane, railway signals and the like (6)

3 A meat-eating animal (9)

4 Harry Potter And The ____ , final novel in the Harry Potter series published in 2007 (7,7)

6 The first sign of the zodiac in astrology (5)

7 A violent young troublemaker, typically one of a gang (8)

8 A pair of eyeglasses without side-pieces, with a springed clip to hold them on the nose (5-3)

9 Time around June 21st in the northern hemisphere when the day is longest and the night shortest (6,8)

15 The place or point of entering a site (9)

16 A preliminary statement on the probable cost of an undertaking (8)

17 A three-dimensional image created by the interference of light beams from a laser (8)

19 Hans ____, German film composer noted for scoring The Lion King and The Dark Knight trilogy (6)

20 An order in which a peal of bells can be rung (6)

22 A unit of weight used for gems (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW