DOUBLE TROUBLE
Test yourself with our general knowledge double crossword ... one grid fits all
ACROSS
1 ___ Takes All, Graham Greene novel (5) 4 Spurns (7) 8 Intersected (7) 9 Birds ‘a-laying’ in The Twelve Days of Christmas (5) 10 Lock company founded in Connecticut in 1868 (4) 11 ___ met by moonlight, quote from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3) 12 Read superficially (4) 15 Angular recess (6) 16 ___ Island, remote Pacific outpost belonging to Chile (6) 19 The Darling ___ of May, HE Bates novel (4) 21 Amount paid to HM Revenue & Customs (3) 22 Part of the leg (4) 26 Temporary hair-tint (5) 27 ___ Tide, 1995 Denzel Washington movie (7) 28 Girl Guides’ emblem (7) 29 One of the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice (5)
DOWN
1 I Should Be So ___, hit for Kylie Minogue (5) 2 Car’s aerofoil (7) 3 Monica’s brother in Friends (4) 4 Sieve (6) 5 Knocks slightly (4) 6 Audacity (5) 7 Old-fashioned ship (7) 13 Tierra ___ Fuego, isles near Cape Horn (3) 14 Surname of Gok, fashion stylist (3) 15 Film starring Liza Minnelli as a stage performer (7) 17 Conveyance (7) 18 Quantity (of land, eg) (6) 20 Italian poet (5) 23 ___ Girl, Barbra Streisand film (5) 24 1993 Mariah Carey hit (4) 25 ___ Road, old trade route through Central Asia (4)
ACROSS
1 Unsuccessful competitor (5) 4 Imperfect goods (7) 8 Marked with an ‘X’ (7) 9 Noisy web-footed birds (5) 10 Major US university (4) 11 Not very well (3) 12 Take away the cream (4) 15 Free kick in football (6) 16 Spring festival (6) 19 Unopened flowers (4) 21 Burden (the brain) (3) 22 Young elephant (4) 26 Wash off soap (5) 27 Rich deep red (7) 28 Plant related to the shamrock and clover (7) 29 Pool of money (5)
DOWN
1 Fortunate (5) 2 Plot give-away (7) 3 Jonathan ___, TV personality (4) 4 Brain-teaser (6) 5 Goes for a run (4) 6 Fleshy part of the face (5) 7 Apparatus for cooking in water vapour (7) 13 Lana ___ Rey, US singer (3) 14 Ashen, pale (3) 15 Restaurant with variety turns (7) 17 In ___, on a journey (7) 18 Package (6) 20 ___ Gabriel Rossetti, 19th-century artist (5) 23 Witty, comical (5) 24 Man of courage (4) 25 Fine fabric (4)