GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Cormac, Blood Meridian novelist (8) 5 A merchant vessel (6) 10 Varnish applied to metal or wood (7) 11 Cyprus’s highest mountain (7) 12 2015 film directed by Ryan Coogler, seventh in the Rocky film series (5) 13 City where King Richard III is buried (9) 14 His first published novel was The Man Within in 1929 (6,6) 18 Method of buying goods by making regular payments over time (4,8) 21 Slang term for a successful person or thing (9) 23 Kalamata is a variety of this fruit (5) 24 1997 film about a slave ship directed by Steven Spielberg (7) 25 People confined to an institution like a hospital or prison (7) 26 Fridtjof, Norwegian explorer and 1922 Nobel Peace Prize winner (6) 27 Mickle Fell is a mountain in this range (8)

DOWN

1 Small rusty coloured Australian lizard, also called the thorny devil (6) 2 Joe, English singer who duetted with Jennifer Warnes on the song Up Where We Belong (6) 3 Journey to a destination followed by return (5,4) 4 Norwegian king who made a failed claim on the English throne in 1066 (6,8) 6 Henry, English industrialist and luxury car manufacturer (5) 7 Members of the National Assembly in France (8) 8 Funds that an insurer sets aside to pay future claims (8) 9 Technical name for common table salt (6,8) 15 Lough Key Forest Park is in this Irish county (9) 16 Jessica, Interstellar actress (8) 17 Football coach Slaven Bilic has this nationality (8) 19 Penelope, actress who played Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey (6) 20 In Greek mythology, centaur whose poisoned blood killed Heracles (6) 22 Kent town, one of the original Cinque Ports (5) SOLUTION TOMORROW