GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

6 A love potion (7)

7 A sales representative

for a business (5)

9 Richard E., U.S. aviator noted for his explorations of Antarctica (4)

10 Tomorrow Is ____, song from the musical The Book Of Mormon (1,6,3)

11 George, severe lawman in the reign of King James II, nicknamed

The Hanging Judge (8)

13 Phrase meaning ‘running

together correctly’ (2,4)

15 Boris Godunov and Peter the Great held this position in prerevolutionary Russia (4)

17 ____ Wallace, MasterChef

co-presenter and judge (5) 18 ____ McIlroy, golfer who won his first major at the U.S. Open in 2011 (4)

19 A person who cuts

timber for a living (6)

20 The business of transporting freight, usually by sea (8)

23 Activity in which the terms brood box and propolis are used (10)

26 Jon, actor who played advertising director Don Draper in Mad Men (4)

27 Highly spiced Asian rice dish, usually with meat or fish (5)

28 ____ first, a top degree with special distinction awarded by some universities (7)

DOWN

1 A sparrowhawk and a hen harrier fall into this category (4,2,4)

2 A colourless, odourless flammable gas that is a constituent of petroleum (6) 3 ____ Lynn, English singer born in 1917, known as the Forces’ Sweetheart (4)

4 Comedian who played Super

Hans in Peep Show (4,4)

5 A fruit whose UK varieties include conference and concorde (4)

6 Jonathan, actor who plays Prince Philip in the fifth season of The Crown (5)

8 1990s BBC TV series set in the world of horse racing, featuring Susannah York and David McCallum (7)

12 Large round baskets of

wickerwork or straw (5)

14 English county that contains the British Ironwork Centre (10)

16 A radical reorganisation (5-2) 17 ____ Ladies Of Wrestling, the professional circuit featured in Netflix comedydrama series GLOW (8)

21 Bernard, late press secretary to Margaret Thatcher as prime minister (6)

22 A wanderer or one who has

no permanent home (5)

24 Large brown seaweed

with leathery fronds (4)

25 ____ Lund, character in the 1943 film Casablanca, played by Ingrid Bergman (4)