General knowledge crossword

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION: ACROSS: 1 Polka. 5 Delft. 8 Louvre. 9 Anvil. 10 Lisle. 11 Elijah. 13 Tansy. 15 Lister. 18 Loch. 19 Ulna. 20 Phoebe. 24 Malta. 26 Albino. 27 Resin. 28 Tubas. 29 Joseph. 30 Salvo. 31 Sulky. DOWN: 1 Plaster of Paris. 2 Leven. 3 Alley. 4 Turin.5 Delhi. 6 Liszt. 7 The Great Gatsby. 12 Almond. 14 Spruce. 16 Sahara. 17 Fennel. 21 Ousel.22 Banjo. 23 Eider. 24 Moths. 25 Libel.

ACROSS

1. Fish from which caviar is obtained (8) 7. Fruit like a crab apple, eaten half-rotten (6) 8. Small, nut-bearing tree or bush (5)

9 and 23. In Nicholas Nickleby, Ralph Nickleby’s clerk (6,5)

10. Bulbous, white-flowered plant (8)

13. Blood poisoning (8)

15. Place where bees are kept (6)

18. Mountain heights forming a compact group (6)

20. Minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany (8)

22. District of Yukon, a gold-rush scene in 1896 (8)

24. Name for the stoat in winter (6)

26. Maritime county of Connacht, Republic of Ireland (5)

27. See 16

28. A messenger or agent (8)

DOWN

1. The second largest city of Wales (7)

2 and 5. The winning of every trick in bridge (5,4)

3. American wildcat, like a small leopard (6) 4. A kind of brown sugar (8)

5. See 2

6. The river Cam, above Cambridge (6)

11. Bluish-black oval fruit of an evergreen tree (5)

12. Surname of the author of The Pit and the Pendulum, etc. (3)

14. People of the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania (5)

16 and 27. Hero of a famous novel by Daniel Defoe (8,6)

17. Largest species of deer, the moose (3) 19. In the U.S., a toll-free road for high-speed traffic (7)

20. Republic in south-eastern Europe (6) 21. A zigzag ski run between posts (6)

23. See 9

25. Poem by Alfred Tennyson (4)