GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
6 Country that will be hosting the FIFA World Cup in late 2022 (5) 7 A ball of aromatic substances placed in a cupboard or room to perfume the air (8) 10 English singer and musician whose first solo album was Friend Or Foe, released in 1982 (4,3) 11 Department of southwest France whose capital is Bordeaux (7) 12 King Of ____ , nickname of U.S. composer and pianist Scott Joplin, born in 1868 (7) 13 A small, usually fourstringed guitar of Hawaiian origin (7) 14 English metropolitan county that includes Newcastle and Sunderland (4,3,4) 19 ____ Island, near the Llyn Peninsula in Wales, known as the Island Of 20,000 Saints (7) 21 A firm determination to do something (7) 23 A red-skinned variety of potato that originated from the Netherlands in 1962 (7) 25 Figure in Greek mythology who unwittingly killed his own father Laius, the king of Thebes (7) 26 Beau, dandy in Regency England, whose statue stands on London’s Jermyn Street (8) 27 Psychiatrist and Frasier Crane’s brother in the TV sitcom, played by David Hyde Pierce (5)
DOWN
1 Keep a ____ face, expression meaning ‘to refrain from smiling’ (8) 2 Giorgio, fashion house headquartered in Milan that has provided suits for such films as Goodfellas (6) 3 A person in the past who prepared and sold medicines and drugs (10) 4 Self-satisfied in a complacent way (4) 5 ____ Sanders, U.S. politician who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020 (6) 6 An area dug out from a piece of land or side of a mountain to extract stone or minerals (6) 8 Training or upbringing (7) 9 The number of players in a water polo team in the water (5) 13 The realm of criminals or organised crime (10) 15 A favoured remedy or scheme (7) 16 A pudding made of a sheet of suet pastry covered with jam or fruit and baked or steamed (4-4) 17 A dwelling place or residence (5) 18 An official survey of a population that is conducted on a regular basis (6) 20 A string of beads used especially by Roman Catholics to count prayers (6) 22 A short track by a railway line used chiefly for shunting trains (6) 24 East Of ____ , novel by U.S. author John Steinbeck, which was published in 1952 and later adapted for film (4)
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