General Knowledge Crossword
ACROSS
1 A variety of beet with large succulent leaves and thick stalks, used as a vegetable (5,5)
5 Metal discs fitting onto the central portion of wheels (7)
10 A pale yellowish-green colour (3,2,3) 11 Perennial plant cultivated for its conical spikes of bright red or yellow drooping tubular flowers (3-3,5) 12 A former Xhosa homeland in South Africa, the capital of which was Umtata (8)
13 An appeal to a supernatural power for harm to come to a specific person, group, etc. (5)
14 Central and South American dish made from fresh raw fish marinated in citrus juices (7) 17 Terrestrial birds with long strong legs, heavy bodies, long necks and speckled plumages (8)
20 “I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as ---.” (Virginia Woolf) (5)
21 In the Old Testament, the first son of Adam and Eve (4)
22 --- swan, a Eurasian swan with a pure white plumage and an orange-red bill with a black base (4)
23 A fast-moving mollusc with a torpedo-shaped body and a pair of triangular tail fins (5) 26 In Greek myths, a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera (8)
28 A large tool with a handle carrying a long steel head curved and tapering to a point at one or both ends (7)
30 A city in SW China, the capital of the autonomous region of Tibet (5)
31 A small dagger with a slender tapered blade (8)
33 One of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic (4,7) 34 To form parts or elements of something into a structured whole; coordinate (8)
35 A man’s sleeveless undergarment; vest (7) 36 Scientists concerned with the maintenance of health (10)
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1 and 16 Down Fictional detective created by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8,6) 2 A Japanese dish of thin fillets of raw fish (7)
3 A nursing home that specialises in caring for the terminally ill (7)
4 Type of garden where alpine plants are grown (7)
6 A small, fleshy, finger-like flap of tissue that hangs in the back of the throat (5)
7 Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial instalments from 1873-7 (4,8)
8 Most lacking in good sense; most absurd (8)
9 Animal with a bony or cartilaginous skeleton (10) 15 In ancient Rome, one of the priestesses whose lives were dedicated to Vesta, goddess of the hearth (6,6) 16 See 1 Down
18 A Japanese language term used to specify the children of children born to Japanese immigrants in a new country (6)
19 Person who studies the motions and relative positions of the planets, sun and moon, interpreted in terms of human activity (10)
24 Cutting instrument with two crossed pivoted blades (8) 25 Units of land area each equivalent to one hundred ares (8)
27 Michael ---, English physicist and chemist after whom the derived SI unit of electric capacitance is named (7) 28 Chinese plant related to the cabbage, with edible stalks and leaves, also called ‘bok choy’ (3-4) 29 Pakistan’s largest city; a major port on the Arabian Sea (7) 32 The stomach lining of an ox or cow, prepared for cooking (5)