GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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6 Florence Foster, U.S. amateur soprano noted for her poor singing ability, played by Meryl Streep in a 2016 film (7) 7 The science or art
of reasoning (5) 9 Danny, the greaser in the 1978 musical film Grease, played by John Travolta (4) 10 ____ arch, structure that frames the opening between a theatre’s stage and auditorium (10) 11 A headlong rush by
a crowd of people (8) 13 To turn like a wheel (6) 15 ____ Ronay, the Hungarianborn food critic who published a series of British restaurant guides (4) 17 Pop rock and dance group noted for their 1994 UK No 1 hit Things Can Only Get Better (5) 18 A segment of a worm
or caterpillar (4) 19 Kirsten, the ceramics expert on TV’s The
Repair Shop (6) 20 A red chalk coloured with iron oxide, used in sketches by Old Masters such as Da Vinci (8) 23 A group of letters and numbers identifying a radio transmitting station, usually an amateur one (4,6) 26 A whirlpool (4) 27 Hebe was the ancient
Greek goddess of this (5) 28 Marked with spots or
irregular discolourations (7)
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1 People who pass on
knowledge to others (10) 2 ____ Simon, the nursery rhyme character who met a pieman (6) 3 Hallvard is the patron saint
of this Nordic capital (4) 4 A naturally occurring
alloy of gold and silver (8) 5 ____ Bernal, Colombian cyclist who won the 2019 Tour de France at the age of 22 (4) 6 A short journey
for pleasure (5) 8 Fictional town that is the setting for the TV crime drama series Midsomer Murders (7) 12 Betting odds with the potential to win the same as the amount gambled (5) 14 Irregular movements of large volumes of air that can disturb a plane’s flight (10) 16 A storehouse for
threshed corn (7) 17 ____ robbery, informal term for an unfair or unreasonable charge (8) 21 ____ Mandela, South African statesman who was a co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize (6) 22 Fictional character in children’s literature whose father figure is Big Ears (5) 24 A scowl or glare (4) 25 His ____ , a slang mock title used of someone in authority (4)
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