GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

6 Irish county that features the Cliffs of Moher (5) 7 To drive too closely behind another vehicle (8) 10 An ex-member of the armed forces (7) 11 Café ____ , fictional coffee shop that featured in the TV sitcom Frasier (7) 12 The other ‘impostor’ with Disaster in the poem If by English writer Rudyard Kipling (7) 13 A place where beer is made commercially (7) 14 British conductor who became music director of the London Symphony Orchestra in 2017 (5,6) 19 Not happening when expected or needed (7) 21 An affinity through shared origins (7) 23 Charles, name shared by Napoleon’s brother-inlaw and a Monégasque racing driver (7) 25 The fifth letter in the Greek alphabet (7) 26 To explore or survey for profitable materials (8) 27 The English singersongwriter whose debut single was Hometown Glory in 2007 (5)

DOWN

1 Apostle who was chosen to replace Judas after the latter’s betrayal of Jesus (8) 2 Three-time Grand National winning horse of whom there is a lifesize statue in Southport (3,3) 3 Prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986 (10) 4 A twelfth part of the zodiac, bearing the name of a constellation (4) 5 A performer whose act involves being the butt of a comedian’s jokes (6) 6 A decayed hollow in a tooth (6) 8 Pat, U.S. bartender and lawman noted for killing Billy the Kid in 1881 (7) 9 Uncle ____ , play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, first published in 1898 (5) 13 Those who have reached the highest level in judo or karate (5,5) 15 English ska band formed in 1976, whose lead vocalist is Suggs (7) 16 ____ the Unready, Anglo-Saxon English king who was the father of Edward the Confessor (8) 17 To shed feathers or hair to make way for new growth (5) 18 A hanger-on or parasite (6) 20 An armed guard (6) 22 The capital of the Bahamas (6) 24 ____ neck, a close-fitting, round neckline on a sweater or T-shirt (4)