GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
8 Hugh, South African jazz trumpeter and composer (8) 9 A line on a map connecting points having the same amount of sunshine (6) 10 Tree whose wood is traditionally used in cricket bats (6) 11 Actress who plays Celia Dawson in Last Tango In Halifax (4,4) 12 David Livingston’s Scottish birthplace, after which the second largest city in Malawi is named (8) 13 The cooking area on board a boat, ship or aircraft (6) 14 Sicilian shepherd and lover of Galatea in Greek mythology (4) 16 A vessel or machine for making butter (5) 17 A jot or very small amount (4) 18 Country which won the Davis Cup in tennis for the first time in 2010 (6) 20 Nationality of the people whose capital is Lomé (8) 23 Neville, British violinist and conductor who founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (8) 24 Murdered general in Macbeth whose ghost the title character sees (6) 25 To give up or repudiate (6) 26 A small long-haired breed of rabbit (8)
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1 Hebrew prophet saved from the lions’ den (6) 2 U.S. National Park in South Dakota (8) 3 Unitary authority in Kent to which Rochester belongs (6) 4 Opera by Puccini set in Japan that premiered in 1904 (6,9) 5 Gregory, actor who plays James Nightingale in Hollyoaks (8) 6 A reddish-brown or light chestnut coloured horse (6) 7 Gable-like structure over the front of a classical building (8) 15 Twining shrub sometimes called traveller’s joy (8) 16 Stockard, actress who played the First Lady in The West Wing (8) 17 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera whose title character is a fairy (8) 19 Valery, Soviet sprinter who won gold in the 100 and 200 metres at the 1972 Munich Olympics (6) 21 Tyrese, U.S. rapper and actor noted for playing Roman Pearce in the Fast & Furious film series (6) 22 Georges, French pointillist painter born in 1859 (6)