General knowledge 779

(answers in next week’s paper)

ACROSS

1. City of Tennessee, USA. on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff (7) 8. Surname of the novelist who wrote TheEustaceDiamonds, etc. (8)

9. Maurice —, artist famous for his paintings of Montmartre (7) 10. An electrically charged particle (3) 11. Type of large brown seaweed (4) 14. An animal, plant, or object venerated by a particular group (5) 15. Cover for a blade or sword (6) 16. Dispur is the capital of this Indian state (5) 18. “Language was not powerful enough to describe the — phenomenon” ( NicholasNickleby) (6) 20. The number of apostles (6) 22. A Hindu sage or saint (5) 24. Large, long-legged, cat-like animal of Africa (6) 27. In Greek legend, a plant whose fruit caused bliss and idleness (5) 29. A concealed observation post (4) 30. Formal signed acknowledgement of a debt (1,1,1) 31. American city, in Illinois, on Lake Michigan (7) 32. Woman’s soft, ornamental dressing gown (8) 33. Surname of the composer of TheStudentPrinceandTheDesert Song (7)

DOWN

1. The rowan tree (8,3) 2. French revolutionary assassinated by Charlotte Corday (5)

3. Lillian —, playwright famous for TheLittleFoxes, etc. (7) 4. Disciples of the philosopher Zeno (6)

5. English coloniser whose life was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (4,5) 6. See 21

7. Old species of wheat now favoured as a health food (5) 12. An artist’s frame (5) 13. Hero of Verne’s Aroundthe WorldinEightyDays (7,4) 17. Black, brown-spotted birds with green or purple reflections (9) 19. In Norway, a long, narrow steep-sided inlet (5) 21 and 6. Author whose works include BookofThelandSongof Los (7,5) 23. Small, shallow round vessel (6) 25. Large Arctic sea duck (5) 26. Coverings for the head and face (5) 28. In history, one holding land of the king; chief of a clan (5)