GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Speaker’s seat in the House of Lords (8) 5 Brendan, actor who plays Rick O’Connell in The Mummy film trilogy (6) 10 _____ Boggs, character in Monsters, Inc. voiced by Steve Buscemi (7) 11 Concerning the back layer of the eyeball (7) 12 To show joy (5) 13 Aubrey, Late Victorian artist and illustrator (9) 14 System used by bats to determine an object’s positioning (12) 18 Aviator who made the first airplane flight between continental Europe and Britain in 1909 (5,7) 21 His last and ninth Olympic gold was in the long jump in 1996 (4,5) 23 This wine region is centred on Logroño (5) 24 Surgical knife with a thin, sharp blade (7) 25 Birds called fish hawks in the U.S. (7) 26 Syntagma Square is in this capital city (6) 27 Wild olive (8)

DOWN

1 _____ Hastings, first British Governor-general of India (6) 2 Track cycling competition comprising different events (6) 3 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas in the title role (9) 4 Lead vocalist of Kings of Leon (5,9) 6 Judged (5) 7 John Gordon, Gregory’s Girl actor (8) 8 Colin McRae was a noted figure in this sport (8) 9 Ireland’s most capped rugby union player (5,9) 15 Old Testament books not considered canonical by Jews or Protestants (9) 16 The Crimean peninsula is on the north coast of this body of water (5,3) 17 Frank, German-born British portrait and cityscape painter (8) 19 _____ Pattinson, The Lighthouse actor (6) 20 Large rope used in tying a ship to a quayside (6) 22 Arsène, fictional gentleman thief created by Maurice Leblanc (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW