GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
8 Virility or masculine pride (8) 9 Northern English constituency to which Winston Churchill was first elected as MP in 1900 (6) 10 Ingredients, usually of flour and eggs, beaten along with milk into a paste in cookery (6) 11 A tendency to pry (8) 12 ____ and City, London tube line coloured turquoise on underground maps (8) 13 In 2014, this former French administrative region was merged with ChampagneArdenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est (6) 14 Better Call ____ , spin-off from TV drama series Breaking Bad (4) 16 An iron peg to which a rope may be attached in mountaineering (5) 17 ____ Daly, English copresenter of Strictly Come Dancing since 2004 (4) 18 Small island off the Pembrokeshire coast noted as a colony for puffins and Manx shearwaters (6) 20 One who does not belong to a particular circle, community or profession (8) 23 An early-flowering bulbous
plant with a white flower (8) 24 Foolishness (6) 25 Chris ____ , English radio and TV presenter born in 1974 noted for his maverick style (6) 26 One who maintains a hopeful,
cheerful look (8)
DOWN
1 Western country whose highest peak is Mount Logan (6) 2 Chris ____, British actor who plays Eric Pollard in Emmerdale (8) 3 ____ plane, a realm of immaterial existence in mysticism seen as an ethereal counterpart to bodily reality (6) 4 Katarina ____ , British heptathlete born in 1993 who broke the British heptathlon record in 2019 (7-8) 5 A boat’s helmsman (8) 6 ___ blue, butterfly with white-fringed wings that frequents southern chalk downland in the UK (6) 7 Long, close-fitting frocks or tunics worn by Anglican clergymen (8) 15 Kate ____, English writer who created the private investigator Jackson Brodie (8) 16 Royal ____ , golf course in Northern Ireland that staged the 2019 British Open (8) 17 Song from the 2017 musical film The Greatest Showman largely sung by Keala Settle (4,2,2) 19 Orphan in The Jungle Book originally raised by a pack of wolves (6) 21 The number of days in the
month of September (6) 22 A larger amount than
needed, allowed or usual (6)