GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

6 A premonition or intuitive feeling (5)

7 The ____ , British espionage TV series (8)

10 A square piece of a rich, chewy chocolate cake (7)

11 _____ replacement therapy or HRT, a treatment to relieve menopause symptoms (7)

12 Connected with the sense of touch (7)

13 A lady of ____ , humorous term for a woman who does not need to earn a living (7)

14 Gambling games in which each person pays for a competitor’s name and receives all the money if the name wins (11)

19 Brightest point in the constellation Canis Major (3,4)

21 A stiff, shiny fabric made from silk or nylon (7)

23 A trailing, climbing plant, especially a rose with small clustered flowers (7)

25 ____ Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor (7)

26 ____ boat, one used for taking people on recreational trips (8)

27 ____ layer, thin part of the Earth’s atmosphere that absorbs most of the sun’s ultraviolet light (5)

DOWN

1 Bills for goods or services (8)

2 Leading hyena voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in the 1994 animated film The Lion King (6)

3 A person employed to breed and protect wild animals typically kept on an estate (10)

4 ____ Webster, microbiologist who has been an Egghead on the TV quiz show since 2016 (4)

5 Decoration known as mercury gilding or fire gilding (6)

6 Bad ____ , song by Ed Sheeran that was a UK No. 1 in 2021 (6)

8 David, an English actor and theatre manager born in 1717 (7)

9 Marine, French politician who has run for her country’s presidency three times (2,3)

13 Album by the Rolling Stones, whose cover includes a shot of a cake made by Delia Smith (3,2,5)

15 Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter in Great Expectations (7)

16 Thomas, English furniture designer of the late Georgian period (8)

17 To deck or decorate (5)

18 Bugsy ____ , 1976 gangster musical comedy film set in the Prohibition era (6)

20 Barney, town drunk in The Simpsons (6)

22 Max, Polish-born U.S. make-up artist noted for his work in the early film industry (6)

24 An overwhelming defeat (4)

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