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Across

1 “My life is my _____.” Mahatma Gandhi (7)
4 If a person does not have knowledge that something is happening, they are said to be what? (7)
7 Who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993? (6,7)
9 What is Australia’s largest desert? (5,8)
11 Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones starred together in this 1999 movie. (10)
13 An island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides (4)
15 A poetical term for time past. (10)
17 What is another name for sky-blue? (5)
18 A branch or sub-division of an organisation (3)
20 Which syllable names the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization? (3)
22 Who is the Egyptian goddess of the sky? (3)
23 “We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a _____ excuse.” Rudyard Kipling (6)
24 Who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)? (4)
26 A long distance foot race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres. (8)
27 Which Belgian city, located on the River Dender, celebrates ‘Carnival’ prior to Lent, with the throwing of onions from the belfry of the former town hall? (5)

Down

1 A graphic symbol consisting of two or more letters combined (usually a person’s initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing (8)
2 Which chemical element has the atomic number 47? (6)
3 Who is the patron saint of Paris? (9)
4 In botanical terms, what is the spore-bearing part of a capsule of moss? (3)
5 Who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781? (7,8)
6 Which mountain’s Nepalese name is Sagamatha, meaning ‘head of the earth’? (7)
8 A group of two. (3)
10 What type of animal is a Sokoke? (3)
12 The New Zealand island where you will visit Cape Reinga. (5)
14 “A day without _______ is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin (8)
15 Who wrote the poem In the Seven Woods (1903)? (5)
16 A fish belonging to the order Apodes. (3)
17 Which river runs through the English city of Bath? (4)
19 Which fruit has the scientific name Mangifera indica? (5)
21 What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet? (4)
25 “We make a living by what we ___, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill (3)