GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Thick, flat savoury cakes cooked on a griddle and eaten toasted and buttered (8)

5 A Chinese dish of small steamed or fried savoury dumplings (3,3)

10 ____ Hunnam, actor who played the title roles in 2002’s Nicholas Nickleby and 2017’s King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword (7)

11 Josh, actor who played Larry Durrell in the TV series The Durrells (7)

12 ____ Lane, street in Covent Garden in London that is noted for its theatres (5)

13 Wine expert and TV presenter born in 1974 (4,5)

14 French industrialist who founded a car company in 1919 (5,7)

18 Holidays organised by travel agents with hotel stays etc. at inclusive prices (7,5)

21 Pieces of armour that covered the body from neck to waist (9)

23 Irene, antagonist of Sherlock Holmes in the short story A Scandal In Bohemia (5)

24 ____ Bevan, Labour politician born the son of a miner in Tredegar in 1897 (7)

25 Linda, Canadian actress who played Tara King in the 1960s TV series The Avengers (7)

26 Magnitude or scope (6)

27 A person sent as a diplomatic representative to deliver a message (8)

DOWN

1 Large insect with transparent wings, noted for its chirping sound (6)

2 The Magician in Gustav

Holst’s The Planets suite (6) 3 Children’s book by Eleanor H. Porter published in 1913 (9)

4 Band noted for the song December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) (3,4,7)

6 Jeremy, actor who voiced Scar in the 1994 animated film The Lion King (5)

7 Smoked cheese that originates from Galicia in northwest Spain (3,5)

8 A drug derived from opium used medically to relieve pain (8)

9 An object or curio valued because of its rarity, beauty, or the like (10,4)

15 Natural phenomena measured using the Fujita scale (9)

16 To watch, especially when at a sporting event (8)

17 ____ and Emergency, the meaning of the abbreviation A&E in hospitals (8)

19 U.S. state that includes Kenai Fjords National Park (6)

20 Solomon, nursery rhyme character who was born on Monday (6)

22 Island in the Firth of Clyde that is sometimes called ‘Scotland in miniature’ (5)

SOLUTION TOMORROW