GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

6 Plant with crimson, pink or white flowers named after a student of Greek god Asclepius (5)

7 Expression meaning ‘very quickly’ or ‘almost instantaneously’ (2,2,4)

10 Food known in French as ‘crème anglaise’ (7)

11 Chris, TV quiz show host played by Michael Sheen in the 2020 TV drama series Quiz (7)

12 Glasses, sunglasses and the like (7)

13 Irish rugby union team whose top scorer is Ronan O’Gara (7)

14 2017 film starring Gary Oldman as wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill (7,4)

19 Threats or declarations of hostile intentions (7)

21 One who seeks to obtain or achieve something by persuasive talk or plausible deception (7)

23 Town that is the administrative centre of the Isle of Wight (7)

25 Having a poetic, romantic quality (7)

26 ____ House, fictional convent in Poplar where nuns work in the TV series Call The Midwife (8)

27 Phil, English midfielder for Manchester City FC nicknamed ‘The Stockport Iniesta’ (5)

DOWN

1 A broken piece of earthenware (8)

2 Richard, British comedian who presented the 2020 and 2021 BAFTA TV awards (6)

3 A desert or other area of land that is not used by people (10)

4 To make a garment by looping and entwining yarn, especially wool, by means of needles (4)

5 A diacritical sign placed over a vowel in German (6)

6 A person or group stationed to watch and dissuade those who go to work in a strike (6)

8 Jeff, U.S. ex-tennis player noted for his bad-boy antics and disqualified from Wimbledon in 1995 (7)

9 The rear part of a boat (5)

13 The sum of chemical changes in living organisms, especially their effect on energy production (10)

15 Omnivorous, cat-sized mammal of the U.S. that is typically nocturnal (7)

16 A person who kills a king or the act itself of killing (8)

17 Native of the country occupying the southeastern coast of the Arabian peninsula (5)

18 Josh, U.S. actor who played villain Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (6)

20 Isaac, English physicist whose theory of gravity was shaped by an apple falling on his head (6)

22 At sea without being moored, steered or propelled (6)

24 ____ Liverpool, art gallery in the city’s Albert Dock that was founded in 1988 (4)

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