GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 An official language of Switzerland since 1996 (8) 9 Sagacious or shrewd (6) 10 Emiliano, Mexican revolutionary (6) 11 Thunderball theme song singer (3,5) 12 _____ medicine, considering the whole person rather than treating an infected part (8) 13 Robert, Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I (6) 14 Somali-American fashion model and widow of David Bowie (4) 16 Eric Arthur, real name of George Orwell (5) 17 Thick brown salty paste made from soya beans used to flavour soup (4) 18 Abode of the giants in Norse mythology (6) 20 Intense happiness or elation (8) 23 ____ Bing, Matthew Perry’s role in Friends (8) 24 Daughter of the title character in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (6) 25 Xabi, Spanish ex-Liverpool and Real Madrid midfielder (6) 26 Fictional village setting in The Archers (8)

DOWN

1 Grand prix founded by Antony Noghès (6) 2 Rock band formed in Leicester in 1997 (8) 3 French island off the coast of Brittany (6) 4 A location coloured brown on a UK Monopoly board (11,4) 5 Top prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival (5,3) 6 Margaret, co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize for The Testaments (6) 7 Name of Pittsburgh’s U.S. football team (8) 15 Margaret, Gone with the Wind author (8) 16 Debut studio album released by Bastille in 2013 (3,5) 17 The forgot-me-not genus (8) 19 Canopy attached to a building giving shelter from the weather (6) 21 Kim, British intelligence officer and Soviet spy (6) 22 U.S. computer-animated media franchise that features Manny a woolly mammoth (3,3)