GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN ACROSS
8 Soft fabric of worsted or worsted and silk (8) 9 Customs (6) 10 Island fortress near Marseille where the Count of Monte Cristo was imprisoned (7,3) 11 Dorothy, character created by L Frank Baum in his Oz novels (4) 12 Physicist Max Planck had this nationality (6) 14 Transshipment port where goods may be exempt from some duties (8) 15 Container for keeping coal (7) 17 Max, film composer who scored the 1933 film King Kong (7) 20 Football club managed by Rafa Benítez before joining Liverpool (8) 22 Jason, ex-member of Take That (6) 24 Barbara, U.S. First Lady 1989-93 (4) 25 County town of Wiltshire (10) 27 ____ Hunniford, Rip Off Britain presenter (6) 28 Billy, Mrs Brown actor (8)
DOWN
1 Nymph in Greek mythology who was transformed into a bay tree (6) 2 Unit of power equal to one joule per second (4) 3 Henry, English officer and inventor of a form of artillery case shot (8) 4 Ava, actress who was Frank Sinatra’s second wife (7) 5 A small grassy mound or low seat (6) 6 Pizza topped with tomato, mozzarella and basil reputedly named after King Umberto I’s wife (10) 7 Henry, U.S.-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist (8) 13 Alpine mountain straddling the Swiss-Italian frontier (10) 16 Sleeveless mantle worn by priests at Mass or Eucharist (8) 18 The sackbut was a forerunner of this musical instrument (8) 19 Lee, U.S. car executive who led Ford and Chrysler (7) 21 John Sell, English marine and landscape painter (6) 23 Prone to laughing (6) 26 Metal that is a major constituent of Earth’s core (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW