EXPRESS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD No. 6
by Medusa

Across

Lower house of the German parliament (9)
Of an area of Greece where the people had a simple, pastoral lifestyle (8)
The arithmetic mean, loosely (7)
10 Hugely (10)
11 Place where people are optimistically out of touch with reality (5-6-4)
12 Verdi work commisioned for Cairo (4)
13 Pop artist, who changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993 (6)
15 Sean, actor famous as James Bond (7)
17 Spanish film director of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988 (9)
19 Snowdonia mountain pass and HEP station (9)
20 Colloquial name for members of the Unification Church (7)
21 The back of ---, 24 across (6)
23 Image of crucifix (4)
24 Inaccessible place (6,2,7)
27 Dish cooked in mushroom and cream sauce (10)
28 Jehovahs, Lords (7)
29 Objects given away gratis (8)
30 Mythological tree binding heaven, earth and hell together (9)

Down

Napoleon's Josephine of "Not tonight" fame (11)
Gallagher or Edmonds (4)
Italian gentlemen (7)
Location of 1692 massacre of the MacDonalds (7)
Without life, geological period before life (5)
Substantive whose name can be applied to all members of a class, e.g ´dog` rather than ´Rover` (6,4)
A word or phrase with two meanings, one of them indecent (6,8)
Edmund, British field marshal who led the offense against the Ottoman Empire in WW1 (7)
11 Headland in S. Africa (4,2,4,4)
14 Cults, fads (6)
15 --- Harold, the original Byronic hero (6)
16 Spanish tourist area to the south of Malaga (5,3,3)
18 Wipe out completely (10)
20 More humid (7)
21 A bluebottle (7)
22 Worked too hard, exaggerated (7)
25 Tooth cleaner; The Mill on the ---, novel by G. Eliot (5)
26 --- Strait, channel between Tasmania and Australia (4)


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