GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 A condition or qualification

attached to an agreement or statement (7)

7 The lowest deck on a ship (5) 9 Britpop group whose studio

albums include Parklife and Think Tank (4)

10 A small-scale experiment or set of observations before a full-scale project (5,5)

11 A grassy plain in tropical or subtropical regions, usually with few trees (8)

13 ____ Townsend, Scottish national rugby union head coach appointed in 2017 (6) 15 ____ fruit, a mottled green and yellow citrus one that is a cross between a grapefruit and tangerine (4) 17 Short, spoon-bladed oar for

one hand, used in pairs (5) 18 Frances, actress who played ‘Nice’ Grandma Nellie Buller in Friday Night Dinner (4)

19 Athletics event in which a metal ball attached to a long handle of flexible wire is hurled (6)

20 A usually baked dessert of

fruit wrapped in dough (8) 23 An accent over a vowel in

some languages indicating a contraction or length (10) 26 ____ and needles, a tingling feeling in part of one’s body due to impeded circulation (4)

27 To sing with rapid alternation between normal voice and falsetto (5)

28 The client of an advertising

agency or a public relations consultancy (7)

DOWN

1 The activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, websites or other media (10)

2 Peri, U.S. actress who played radio producer Roz Doyle in TV sitcom Frasier (6)

3 A fine black powder used to darken the area around the eyes (4)

4 Country that won Eurovision

for the first time in 2017 (8)

5 Informal term for a

punctured tyre (4)

6 The capital of Majorca and

the Balearic Islands (5)

8 The area of a racecourse where horses are paraded before each race (7)

12 Rufus, stand-up comic and regular panellist on TV game show Celebrity Juice (5)

14 An Australasian tree of the myrtle family valued for its wood, oil, gum and resin (10) 16 The force attracting a body

to the centre of the earth (7) 17 An emergency take-off

by a military aircraft (8)

21 Country from which Chihuahua dogs originate (6)

22 A composition for

nine performers (5)

24 Film about a hearing daughter in a deaf family that won the Best Picture Oscar in 2022 (4)

25 Turn over a new ____, expression meaning

‘to begin a better course of conduct’ (4)

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