GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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6 1897 Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker (7) 7 Ancient alphabet used by Celts in Britain and Ireland (5) 9 Russian river that flows into the Caspian Sea (4) 10 Charlatan or quack seller of remedies (10) 11 _____ Shandy, a Laurence Sterne title character (8) 13 Greek island where Odysseus was the king (6) 15 U.S. island territory in Micronesia (4) 17 ____ James, late Australian TV critic and broadcaster (5) 18 Claude, French vintner and wine merchant who founded a champagne house (4) 19 Okra as used in Indian cooking (6) 20 Danish setting for Shakespeare’s Hamlet (8) 23 He played Herman Munster in The Munsters (4,6) 26 ___ Korbut, ex-Soviet gymnast nicknamed the Sparrow from Minsk (4) 27 ____ Brown, lead singer of the band Hot Chocolate (5) 28 Aristocratic family whose seat is Althorp in Northamptonshire (7)

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1 The Spy Who Loved Me theme song singer (5,5) 2 Tube-nosed seabird of the subarctic regions (6) 3 Azerbaijan’s capital (4) 4 Online video game released in 2017 (8) 5 Fictional whaling ship captain in Moby Dick (4) 6 Albrecht, noted German Renaissance artist (5) 8 Single eyeglass (7) 12 U.S. state nicknamed The Pine Tree State (5) 14 Comic-book superhero whose real name is Johnny Storm (5,5) 16 To dislodge a rider from a saddle (7) 17 Essex setting for the sitcom Birds Of A Feather (8) 21 Footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic was born in this country (6) 22 Jolly ____ , traditional name for a pirate ship’s flag (5) 24 Laura, Jurassic Park actress (4) 25 John, Regency architect who designed Brighton’s Royal Pavilion (4)

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