General knowledge crossword

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ACROSS

1. Accounts book in which transactions are initially recorded (7)

8. Mediterranean variety of wild marjoram used in cookery (8)

9. A pistol case (7)

10. Snooker or billiard rod (3)

11. The remnant of the Long Parliament (4) 14. Land belonging to a nobleman (5)

15. Kind of open carriage (6)

16. Famous violin-makers from Cremona (5)

18. A tongue-like part (6)

20. Soundness of body and mind (6)

22. Christian descendants of the ancient Egyptians (5)

24. Island about 16 miles south-west of Naples (6)

27. Chief port of South Korea (5)

29. Japanese rice beer (4)

30. -- Browne, a military officer’s belt with shoulder strap (3)

31. See 26

32. Spring-flowering, dwarf, perennial plant (8)

33. Sign of the zodiac (7)

DOWN

1. Famous titled English painter of Bubbles, etc. (4,7)

2. A Prussian lancer (5)

3. In music, a tone neither sharp nor flat (7) 4. Light vessel rigged like a Chinese junk (6)

5. 1952 film starring Charlie Chaplin (9) 6. Small variety of Scottish terrier (5) 7. Former name for Myanmar (5)

12. Nicholas --, author of Ralph Roister Doister (5)

13. Full name of the puppet-show character, wife of Judy (11)

17. Crystalline iron pyrites, as ornament (9) 19. Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown (5)

21. A strong grass for making baskets, etc. (7)

23. Vast, treeless South American plain (6) 25. Salisbury, ecclesiastically (5)

26 and 31. Baroque composer of Dido and Aeneas, etc. (5,7)

28. Domestic animal yielding meat and wool (5)