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Simply General Knowledge! (15) Crossword Puzzle

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Another mixture of general knowledge clues covering most FT categories. (Any feedback is most welcome.)
Author: moonraker2 - Diff: Harder

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      1. Extremely cold continent at the south pole (10)
      6. A killer whale (4)
      9. Young male students (10)
      10. Surname of the first African-American to win the US Open tennis singles title (4)
      12. Biblical Jewish queen of Persia who saved her people from massacre (6)
      13. A warning that something very dangerous is likely to happen (3,5)
      15. 2005 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (6,6)
      18. Official residence of the French President (6,6)
      22. Small, round, stoned fruits
      23. Title afforded Benito Mussolini as leader of Fascist Italy (2,4)
      25. Term used for a lake in Scotland (4)
      26. Singer who wrote and recorded "You're So Vain" (5,5)
      27. Mountain range in south-central Europe (4)
      28. Cast in the title role of the 1950 war film 'Odette' (4,6)

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      1. Surname of novelist who wrote 'Emma' and 'Persuasion' (6)
      2. The largest of the Society Islands (6)
      3. Birthplace of former racing driver Nelson Piquet (3,2,7)
      4. A large brass instrument (4)
      5. A powerful breed of carthorse, originally from Scotland (10)
      7. Dante Gabriel ___, English poet and painter, leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (8)
      8. The opening in a camera that lets light in (8)
      11. A member of Adolf Hitler's political party (4)
      14. A military attack that achieves complete surprise (Fr) (4,2,4)
      16. An expression used to acknowledge guilt (Latin) (3,5)
      17. Biennial golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States (5,3)
      19. Mary ___ abandoned ship found adrift in N Atlantic in 1872 (7)
      20. A spice made from the hard seed of a tropical tree (6)
      21. A meeting of spiritualists (6)
      24. The longer of the two bones in the human forearm (4)