GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN ACROSS

8 Actor who plays Steve Harrington in Stranger Things (3,5)

9 A lack of interest

or enthusiasm (6)

10 AI-assisted last song of The Beatles, released in 2023 (3,3,4)

11 Fictional blue tang in the animated film series Finding Nemo (4)

12 The Count of Monte ____, alias of fictional character Edmond Dantes (6)

14 A person or thing carrying the same appellation as another (8) 15 Writer who created the fictional races of the Eloi and Morlocks (1,1,5)

17 Vlad the ____, ruler of Walachia noted for his cruel punishments (7)

20 Indian Ocean archipelago off the central eastern coast of Africa (8)

22 Using a pole with a toothed crossbar for smoothing loose soil or gravel (6)

24 To pack neatly in a

particular place (4)

25 A vegetable with purplish leaves, sometimes called Blaukraut (3,7)

27 ____ Cunningham, footballer who played for West Bromwich Albion and Real Madrid (6)

28 Fictional setting of the sitcom The

Thin Blue Line (8)

DOWN

1 A distinction conferred as an award for bravery or achievement (6)

2 A large brownish predatory seabird related to gulls (4)

3 A legal document used to formalise a change of a person’s name (4,4)

4 Punctuation marks used to indicate the division of words at the end of lines (7)

5 A bottle of champagne that is half the size of a jeroboam (6)

6 1980 sports comedy film starring Chevy Chase and Bill Murray (10)

7 A member of a Native American people once living in the Appalachians (8)

13 Plant of the Achillea ptarmica family used to unblock sinuses (10)

16 Leslie, actor who played

Dirty Den in EastEnders (8) 18 Russian city that is the largest in the world north of the Arctic Circle (8)

19 A young person with exceptional qualities or abilities (7)

21 Wayne, English official who refereed rugby union’s World Cup final in 2023 (6) 23 To make ineffective

or nullify (6)

26 William, leading character in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical 1938 novel Scoop (4)

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