GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 _____ Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter born in 1987 (5) 7 A type of small reed organ or a button accordion (8) 10 Lester, English jockey who won the Epsom Derby nine times (7) 11 A ballad, often topical, accompanied by percussion instruments originating in the West Indies (7) 12 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ salad, comprising apples, celery, walnuts and mayonnaise (7) 13 The baseball park Wrigley Field is in this U.S. city (7) 14 Christian hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte in 1861 (5,4,2) 19 The official record of debates in the UK Parliament (7) 21 _______ Lawson, food writer born in 1960 (7) 23 Giacomo, Tosca and Madama Butterfly composer (7) 25 An eight-sided figure (7) 26 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Palace, ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough (8) 27 _ _ _ _ _ Spacek, Carrie actress (5)

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1 Asian country whose capital is Ulaanbaatar (8) 2 A style of architecture, decoration and furniture making, characterised by shells and scrolls (6) 3 Meat and poultry market in London which opened in its modern form in 1868 (10) 4 ____ Baldwin, actor who played Jack Ryan in The Hunt For Red October (4) 5 Brooks, U.S. golfer who won his first major at the U.S. Open in 2017 (6) 6 Large, green-skinned edible fruits (6) 8 _______ Picture Gallery, John Soane designed art gallery opened to the public in 1817 (7) 9 A punctuation mark of two dots used when introducing a list (5) 13 Mountain range in Scotland’s Grampian region (10) 15 Fashion designer Giorgio Armani has this nationality (7) 16 One who extols another person, often at a funeral (8) 17 _____ Of You, a UK No 1 hit for Ed Sheeran in 2017 (5) 18 Mark, Canadian-born governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020 (6) 20 _ _ _ _ _ _ Benedetti, Scottish classical violinist (6) 22 Mark, The League of Gentleman actor and co-creator of Sherlock (6) 24 A mountain goat with large, backward-curving horns (4) SOLUTION ON MONDAY