GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

8 Nadia, the Romanian gymnast who, at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, became the first to score a perfect 10 (8)

9 A long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill and patterned plumage (6)

10 Situations ____ , the title of a column or page in a newspaper where jobs are advertised (6)

11 An arterial blockage often

caused by a blood clot (8)

12 A bedspread (8)

13 The capital of Australia’s

Northern Territory (6)

14 Scrambled ____ , working title of the Beatles song Yesterday, written by Paul McCartney (4)

16 A painting or sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Christ in her arms (5)

17 ____ house, a pub that is obliged to sell the beer, products etc. of a particular brewer (4)

18 Jimmy, U.S. ex-president who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work (6)

20 ____ and South Ruislip, the constituency in outer London held by Boris Johnson since 2015 (8)

23 A lightweight solid carbon residue formed by heating wood in minimal oxygen (8)

24 Yearly stages in education in the U.S. (6)

25 Divisions of acts in plays (6)

26 U.S. actor who played the lead role of the heroic airline pilot in the 2016 film Sully (3,5)

DOWN

1 Principality located near the French-Italian border that levies no income tax on its citizens (6)

2 English rugby union club captained by Owen Farrell (8)

3 ____ surgeon, one who examines and treats people’s teeth (6)

4 ____ Fraternity, the national motto of France translated into English (7,8)

5 Asian country whose national flag includes an image of the

temple complex at Angkor Wat (8)

6 Family in EastEnders whose members include Martin, Michelle and Rebecca (6)

7 To sweat (8)

15 The use of diagrams in calculation and design (8)

16 A small toothed whale with a triangular dorsal fin and a blunt, rounded snout (8)

17 A boat with three hulls in parallel (8)

19 A large crowd of people (6)

21 The offence of marrying a person while legally married to someone else (6)

22 Their war with the Trojans is described in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad (6)

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