GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 What is to soak food in a flavouring sauce before cooking? (7)

7 What word meaning broken or useless did we borrow from German? (5)

8 How many syllables does a haiku have? (9)

9 What small sharp tool is used for piercing leather? (3)

10 What do platelets help blood do? (4)

11 What is the acronym for the US’S stockcar racing body? (6)

13 Which comedian wrote the song “I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas”? (5,8)

15 What open-topped glass flask might be found on a restaurant table? (6)

16 Which large extinct bird lived in Mauritius? (4)

18 Which large extinct bird lived in New Zealand? (3)

20 What is a pert maidservant or similar minor female role in a comedy? (9)

21 What is a person who behaves obsequiously towards others? (5)

22 Which English poet’s reputation was cemented by “In Memoriam”, in 1850? (8)

DOWN

1 What does a melophobe fear or hate? (5)

2 What are small squares of pasta containing a savoury mixture? (7)

3 Who accompanied Frederik in a 1950s-60s singing duo? (4)

4 What is Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte better known as? (3,5,5)

5 A halberd combines a battleaxe and a what? (5)

6 What is the best known English blue cheese? (7)

7 What word can precede sandwich, bone and down? (8)

12 What is also known as Hansen’s disease? (7)

13 What are the pores in the surface of a plant’s leaves called? (7)

14 What is the vocal apparatus of the larynx? (7)

15 What is a secret political clique or faction? (5)

17 Which familiar name for a cinema was first used by 1930s cinema chain owner Oscar Deutsch? (5)

19 Some 6000-year old Egyptian beads are the first known use of which metal? (4)