General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

3. 1969 album by The Beatles (5,4) 8. In Greek mythology, the god of love (4) 9. Tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side (9) 10. ‘The Raggedy —’, 1988 film directed by and starring Bob Hoskins (6) 11. — na Gopaleen, pseudonym of Irish author Flann O’brien (5) 14. Edible seed such as the pea and lentil (5) 15. Short story by Somerset Maugham in the collection The Trembling of a Leaf (4) 16. French market town, especially one beside a castle (5) 18. Group of three singers (4) 20. ‘The —’, 1984 Mel Gibson film for which Sissy Spacek was an Oscar nominee (5) 21. Felix, art collector after whom a London school of art was founded (5) 24. The — Cross has a broad ring surrounding the point of intersection (6) 25. Language closely related to Catalan, French and Italian (9) 26. Bird of the family Columbidae (4) 27. The — Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East (9)

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1. 1976 US Open golf champion (5,4) 2. Fourth-highest English wicket taker in Test cricket (3,6) 4. Coastal resort town in Wicklow, Republic of Ireland (4) 5. ‘Sleeping with the —’, 1991 film with Julia Roberts (5) 6. Long narrow sword with a guarded hilt (6) 7. Aircraft firm founded by A.V. Roe in 1910 (4) 9. Brightest star in the constellation Cygnus (5) 11. Hand-held device used to control cursor movement in computing (5) 12 & 23D Christian body founded in 1865 by William Booth (9,4) 13. “— and the Lion”, play by George Bernard Shaw (9) 17. Thin porridge made by boiling oatmeal in water (5) 19. Rich countess in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (6) 22. Robert, Best Actor Oscar-winner for Goodbye Mr. Chips (5) 23. See 12 Down 24. James M., author of Double Indemnity (4)