GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Charles Dickens’s country home from 1856 until his death (4,4) 9 To remove the contents of a case or container (6) 10 House of ___ , the lower directly elected branch of the Isle of Man parliament (4) 11 Temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before a funeral (10) 12 Montague, Lithuanian-born British businessman who

founded a menswear chain (6) 14 Living near the shore or in a coastal region (8) 15 The largest instrument in the oboe family (13) 17 Justine, Conservative Education Secretary 2016-18 (8) 19 Bill, British-U.S. writer noted for books on travel and

the English language (6) 21 Former South Slavic language spoken in the old

Yugoslavia (5-5) 22 Evangelist and patron saint of physicians and

surgeons (4) 23 Stone-arch bridge in Venice designed by Antonio da

Ponte (6) 24 Jay-Jay Okocha was a footballer of this nationality (8)

DOWN

1 Lesotho’s capital (6) 2 Egyptian goddess who was Horus’s mother (4) 3 Nestor, Argentinian president 2003-07 whose wife succeeded him (8) 4 Meal of cold food usually displayed on a long table (6) 5 The scientific study of caves (10) 6 Clara, German pianist and composer born in 1819 (8) 8 1876 battle in Montana and scene of Custer’s Last Stand (6,7) 13 Fairy companion to the title character in Peter Pan (6,4) 15 _____ Medal, annual British literary award for children’s fiction established in 1936 (8) 16 Malicious damage or destruction of machinery or property (8) 18 1950 battle of the Korean War (6) 20 Rutland’s county town (6) 22 Small, brightly-coloured parrot of Australia and Indonesia (4)