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Simply General Knowledge! (16) Crossword Puzzle

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It's all here, a mixture of music, literature, geography, sport, history and mythology. No acronyms nor space-fillers. (Any feedback most welcome)
Author: moonraker2 - Diff: Harder

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      8. The third son of Adam and Eve (4)
      9. A forest tree with a smooth, grey bark (3)
      10. The Storming of the Bastille led to revolution in this country (6)
      11. Birthplace of Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker (6)
      12. A region of north-eastern France (8)
      13. Beatles hit single released in 1966 (9,6)
      15. Period in human development succeeding the Bronze Age (4,3)
      17. Roman spelling of Odysseus (7)
      20. Organization of ladies only, who meet for social and cultural activities (6,9)
      23. The most northerly of the Windward Islands (8)
      25. Egyptian god with the head of a jackal (6)
      26. Heinrich Himmler was born in this city (6)
      27. Jerry's cartoon partner (3)
      28. The central shaft for a rotating wheel (4)

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      1. The wife of King Priam of Troy in Homer's Iliad (6)
      2. ___ Hills, a range of chalk hills in southern England (8)
      3. 1944 British drama film starring Phyllis Calvert and James Mason (5,2,8)
      4. Shakespearean moneylender (7)
      5. Ernest Hemingway novel set during World War I and published in 1929 (1,8,2,4)
      6. Country known as Nyasaland until 1966 (6)
      7. A graphic representation of a person that is symbolic (4)
      14. The first woman and mother of the human race (3)
      16. Falls between Pi and Sigma in the Greek alphabet (3)
      18. Seedless mandarin oranges originally cultivated in Japan (8)
      19. Instruction for music to be performed at a moderately slow tempo (7)
      21. A substance believed to cure all ills (6)
      22. ___ Crown, title for horses winning the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness (6)
      24. An unfertilized female gamete (4)