GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across 1.

Final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series (3,4,6)

10. Speak or act spontaneously, an abbreviation of the Latin phrase meaning ‘according to pleasure’ (2,3)

11. Tropical fruit commonly known as starfruit (9)

12. Military command which instructs a soldier to return to a previous posture (2,3,4)

13. 1979 sci-fi film set on the commercial space tug Nostromo (5)

14. ___ Bay, popular tourist destination in Jamaica (7)

16. First King of Scotland (7)

18. French white wine grape variety (7)

20. Spanish composer best known for Concierto de Aranjuez, a classical guitar concerto written in 1939 (7)

22. Younger brother of TV character Doctor Frasier Crane (5)

24. Civilian sector, and activities, of a country at war (4,5)

26. Mythical North American creature which can turn its body into a wheel (4-5)

27. “__ __ is an island entire of itself”: quote from John Donne’s 1624 poem Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3)

28. Accidentally give away a secret (5,3,5)

Down 2.

In Greek mythology, a woman turned into a kingfisher; now a word meaning calm and peaceful (7)

3. People engaged in manual work (9)

4. Silver money in the form of ingots, formerly used in China (5)

5. Norse warrior who would work himself into a frenzy before battle (9)

6. Record label founded by Berry Gordy in 1959 (5)

7. Resembling a lion (7)

8. Lawyer who was a leader of India’s independence movement, assassinated in 1948 (7,6)

9. American teenage sitcom which starred Miley Cyrus (6,7)

15. Type of surgery where the chest is cut open and surgery is performed (4,5)

17. “There can be __ __ like elaborate courtesy”: E.V. Lucas (2,7)

19. Kirsty ___, co-host of the property show Location, Location, Location (7)

21. Superhero from Marvel Comics who appeared in the first of a series of films in 2008 (4,3)

23. Southern Mexican plant yielding stiff fibre used in making ropes (5)

25. ___ Binchy, bestselling Irish author (5)