GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Term for a part of the US furthest from the Atlantic in its lawless frontier period (4,4) 9 Square slab at the bottom of a column (6) 10 George, English singer/songwriter and guitarist noted for his single Budapest (4) 11 Feeling of restlessness after remaining indoors for a prolonged period (5,5) 12 Cuba’s capital (6) 14 Poetic harmonisation based on spelling rather than sound (3,5) 15 Conflict that included the Battle of the Somme in 1916 (5,5,3) 17 Any of the diminutive characters usually dressed in blue from the Oz books by L. Frank Baum (8) 19 Butler played by Jim Carter in Downton Abbey (6) 21 François, the first socialist President of the French Fifth Republic (10) 22 A smartly dressed or well-to-do person (4) 23 A fierce attack or heavy bombardment from low-flying

aircraft (6) 24 Byname of Antonín Dvorák’s ninth symphony in

E Minor (3,5)

DOWN

1 A public square or marketplace in an Italian town (6) 2 ___ O’Brien, Irish novelist and short-story writer born in 1930 (4) 3 The ____ Of Venice, Shakespeare play featuring Antonio and Shylock (8) 4 Any aquatic creature of the phylum Porifera (6) 5 Dwight D., US president who served two terms between 1953 and 1961 (10) 6 A long, narrow flag waving in the air (8) 8 Flat-topped peak overlooking Cape Town (5,8) 13 Conserve used in making Battenberg cake (7,3) 15 Group of mostly French painters led by Henri Matisse who used pure, brilliant colour (8) 16 Imposition of containment or isolation, often as an emergency measure (8) 18 The softer part contained within the hard shell of a nut (6) 20 County in the province of Leinster (6) 22 Barry, English comedian who presented Points Of View (4) SOLUTION TOMORROW