GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 French term for white wine (3,5) 9 A drink produced by distillation or fermentation (6) 10 ____ mess, dessert of whipped cream, meringue and fruit (4) 11 Actor who played ‘Jack’ Frost in A Touch of Frost (5,5) 12 American _____ , 1930 painting by Grant Wood (6) 14 Arthurian knight who was the father of Galahad (8) 15 International organisation created by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 (8,5) 17 A sensational or exciting film, play or story (8) 19 _____ Earhart, U.S. aviator who disappeared in 1937 (6) 21 Nickname of English pirate Edward Teach (10) 22 Surname of the twins in the fire brigade in Trumpton (4) 23 ____ Butler, Scottish actor who played King Leonidas in 300 (6) 24 Albert, Swiss physicist born in Ulm in Germany in 1879 (8)

DOWN

1 A small bar or restaurant (6) 2 Scottish Highland town on the Firth of Lorn (4) 3 An advantage given to a weaker player in golf in terms of number of strokes (8) 4 Oxfordshire village in which Winston Churchill is buried (6) 5 Familiar term for the City of London (6,4) 6 To do something energetically or enthusiastically (2,2,4) 8 Wedding conducted without a religious ceremony (5,8) 13 A soft-bodied crustacean that inhabits a mollusc shell (6,4) 15 ____ the Unready, English king and son of Edgar (8) 16 African nationals whose capital is Kampala (8) 18 Psychic drive or energy associated with the sexual instinct (6) 20 ____ Bergman, Swedish actress who starred in Casablanca (6) 22 William ____ , The Younger, British Prime Minister during the French Revolution (4)