GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Japan’s second most populous city (8) 9 Richard, U.S. fashion and portrait photographer (6) 10 Professor _____ , fictional character created by Arthur Conan Doyle (10) 11 Japanese rice-based alcoholic drink (4) 12 Heitor Villa-Lobos was a composer from this country (6) 14 Model from which others are produced (8) 15 Otis, (Sittin’ On) The Dock of The Bay singer/songwriter (7) 17 Star Wars: Episode I – The ____ Menace released in 1999 (7) 20 Large beetle that feeds on soft fruit (8) 22 Town and seaport in Normandy (6) 24 Robert, Scottish neoclassical architect and designer (4) 25 JFK’s predecessor as U.S. president (10) 27 The Damned ____ , 2009 film based on Brian Clough’s spell as manager at Leeds (6) 28 Marcus, Manchester United and England striker (8)
DOWN
1 Term for food approved by Jewish law (6) 2 Billy, U.S. singer/songwriter nicknamed Piano Man (4) 3 Ferdinand, Portuguese explorer killed in the Philippines in 1521 (8) 4 The Turner Contemporary art gallery opened here in 2011 (7) 5 Large wedge-shaped bone in the lower part of the back (6) 6 Her first solo UK No 1 hit was Hold My Hand in 2015 (4,6) 7 Parrot from Australia or New Guinea with feathers on its head (8) 13 White Teeth novelist (5,5) 16 He played Dr Mark Sloan in Grey’s Anatomy (4,4) 18 A pleasure-seeker (8) 19 Insect-eating plant of the sundew genus (7) 21 Maiden name of Cheryl, former The X Factor judge (6) 23 ____ Curie, who shared the 1903 Nobel Physics Prize with his wife Marie (6) 26 Popular aquarium fish with silver and golden varieties (4)
SOLUTION TOMORROW