General Knowledge Crossword
ACROSS 1 Having a high state of culture and social development (9)
6 Sapeur- ---, French firefighter (7) 10 An underground burial place, especially in Rome (8)
11 Places where live animals are kept under natural conditions, for observation or research (9) 12 A type of Arabian camel with a single hump (9)
13 A belief, opinion or dogma (5) 15 An ancient Egyptian fertility goddess, depicted as a woman with a cow’s horns (4)
16 A beverage served hot or iced (3) 17 A condensation or brief review of a subject; summary (8) 18 Evolved or developed, especially from a latent or potential state (6)
21 Small, semiaquatic amphibian with a long slender body and tail and short legs (4)
23 A plank of softwood timber, such as fir or pine (4) 25 Short-sightedness (6) 27 Galleys developed by the ancient Greeks as warships, with three banks of oars on each side (8)
28 A major division of a dramatic work (3)
29 A state of the western US, the capital of which is
Salt Lake City (4) 31 Slow-moving Australian marsupial which feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark (5) 32 A cathedral city in W central England on the River Severn (9)
34 Arturo ---, Italian conductor; music director of the
NBC Symphony Orchestra 1937-54 (9)
35 and 4 Down Former West Indian cricket captain knighted in 1975 (8,6)
36 Covered with hair (7) 37 Medical expert in the structure and diseases of muscles (9) DOWN 2 An ambassador of the pope (11) 3 Sierra ---, W African republic on the Atlantic (5)
4 See 35 Across
5 Scottish leader of the UK’s Liberal Party from 1976 until its 1988 merger with the Social Democratic Party (5,5) 6 A meringue cake topped with whipped cream and fruit (7) 7 A piece of furniture consisting of a low surface for kneeling upon and a narrow front surmounted by a rest, for use when praying (4-4) 8 Redesigned, reshaped or retailored (8)
9 A rigorous and conclusive examination to establish worth or value (4,4)
14 A cottontail rabbit species found in Central and South America (6) 15 A Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, attributed to Homer (5)
19 Antonin ---, Czech Romantic composer whose works included the New World Symphony (6) 20 Anthropoid apes inhabiting forests in central W Africa (11) 21 Plant with round leaves and yellow, red or orange trumpetshaped spurred flowers (10) 22 Another name for the Pentateuch (5)
24 A wild or exciting adventure; scrape (8)
25 Abel ---, escaped convict in Dickens’ Great Expectations (8) 26 Male peafowl with crested heads and very large fanlike tails (8)
28 Fred ---, American film and Broadway stage dancer, singer and actor who starred in ten films with Ginger Rogers (7) 30 In music, a movement or piece to be performed slowly (6) 33 Portuguese city famous for its wine (5)