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General Knowledge again this week. If you wish to work on the interactive version of the crossword, please click on this link which will take you to the Crossword Compiler web page which is not technically supported by GenevaLunch.

Places

by Chalicea

Most of the solutions in this crossword are place names.

Across

1 A salt of any halogen acid (6)

4 Parish in Oxfordshire (UK) which includes Blenheim Palace, where Winston Churchill was born (6)

9 Small town near Windsor (UK), site of a famous school (4)

10 City close to the Welsh border and on the River Severn, founded as Glevum by the Romans in 48AD (10)

11 Of or relating to Liverpool, UK (6)

12 Capital city of British Columbia, located on the tip of Vancouver Island (8)

13 Island city-state in Southeast Asia (9)

15 A knot on a tree (4)

16 Republic in the Caribbean (4)

17 City in northwest England, home of the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose (9)

21 Mass of ice in the Arctic or Antarctic circle (5,3)

22 A county of Romania in the historic region of Moldavia (6)

24 The state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River (6,4)

25 Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch (4)

26 Municipality on the southern flank of the St Gotthard Pass in the district of Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland (6)

27 A city in southern India to the southwest of Bangalore (6)

Down

1 Industrial city in Japan that has given its name to a world-famous company (7)

2 Chinese city in the middle of the Shandong peninsula with almost a million inhabitants (5)

3 English translation of Limavady (County Derry, Ireland) which is derived from the Gaelic “Leim an Mhadaidh” (3,4)

5 Village in Wiltshire (UK) owned almost entirely by the National Trust. It attracts tourists because of its unspoiled appearance (6)

6 Capital and most populous city in the state of Iowa. Its name may have been adapted from the French name for the River of the Monks (3,6)

7 More than necessary in Shakespeare’s language (7)

8 City and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, United Kingdom (13)

14 Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules (9)

16 Gaelic name for “Sound of Islay” that is used by a whisky distillery (4,3)

18 A port and the capital of Guinea (7)

19 Scene of Uganda’s international airport best known for the dramatic rescue of 100 hostages knidnapped by terrorists in 1976 (7)

20 Island in the southern Puget Sound, Washington USA, site of a federal penitentiary where Charles Manson was held from 1961 to 1966  for trying to cash a forged government cheque (6)

23 A siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico (5)

Here is last week’s solution. ‘Man’ was hidden fourteen times in the words.

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