GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Which national park is the US’s largest? (11)

8 Rulers of which African country squandered $400 billion from 1960 to 1999? (7)

9 Colchester is in which English county? (5) 10 What replaced the German mark? (4)

11 Which model did carmaker Hillman launch in 1970? (7)

12 What hand-held device cools the user? (3)

13 Denpasar is the capital of which Indonesian island? (4)

15 What is a cricket or rugby match played between two nations’ teams? (4)

17 Which insect is apian? (3)

19 What describes a group of motionless figures representing a scene? (7)

20 How might one address a married German woman? (4)

23-24 Originally black pygmies in his 1964 book, which Roald Dahl creatures changed skin colour after racism complaints in the US? (5-7)

25 What is the strong-smelling ingredient in moth-balls? (11)

DOWN

1 What was a Union soldier in the American Civil War called? (6)

2 What is the offspring of a male lion and a tigress? (5)

3 What is gumbo also called? (4)

4 What is another name for a medicine man among certain tribes of North American Indians? (6)

5 What dish of beaten eggs is cooked in a frying pan? (8)

6 “Sensing” is the only common English anagram of what word? (7)

7 What are pugilists more commonly called? (6)

12 What do coal miners call methane? (8) 14 What is the protein in egg white? (7)

16 The origins of which ambulance organisation date back over 900 years to Jerusalem? (2,4)

17 What silver item did the Lone Ranger leave as a calling card? (6)

18 What is the French name for Switzerland? (6)

21 What is the monetary unit of Pakistan? (5)

22 What is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet? (4)