GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

6 Make ____ (Come Up And See Me), song by the late Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel released in 1975 (2,5)

7 Miss ____, governess in The Importance Of Being Earnest (5)

9 The end part of a sleeve (4)

10 Fairytale character played on film by Mary Pickford and Lily James (10)

11 An academic rank in a college or university (8)

13 A bushy perennial plant of the daisy family (6)

15 The light fawn colour of unbleached linen (4)

17 An ancient manuscript text in book form (5)

18 J. Arthur, British industrialist who founded a film company (4)

19 The Vale Of ____, 1828 landscape painting by John Constable (6)

20 Eurosceptic Conservative MP first elected to Parliament in 1984 (4,4)

23 ____ locker, sailors’ slang for ‘bottom of the ocean’ (4,6)

26 Border Collie dog associated with John Noakes on Blue Peter (4)

27 Jacqueline, cellist born in Oxford in 1945 (2,3)

28 Tied or rolled up together as though in a parcel (7)

DOWN

1 Expression meaning ‘a person easily persuaded to lend money’ (1,4,5)

2 ____ movement, an advance on an enemy from two sides simultaneously (6)

3 Roger, designer noted for album covers for rock bands including Yes and Asia (4)

4 Small sac-like organ at one end of the large intestine (8)

5 A metal drawn out into the form of a thin flexible thread (4)

6 Stuart Little created by E. B. White is a fictional one (5)

8 A vertical strip between the casements or panes of a window (7)

12 To give an unofficial name again to (5)

14 Billy, character played by Keith Clifford in Last Of The Summer Wine (10)

16 Pat, Scottish midfielder born in 1939 who played for Manchester United FC (7)

17 An ordinary person as opposed to a member of the aristocracy or royalty (8)

21 ____ battle, a hopeless enterprise or attempt doomed to failure (6)

22 1994 thriller film set on a bus, starring Keanu Reeves (5)

24 Informal term for nerves making a golfer miss an easy putt (4)

25 Central European river that rises in the northern Czech Republic (4)