General knowledge crossword

ACROSS

1 Which country is the only member of NATO with no army? (7)

4 Colloquially, what is a stand-in doctor? (5) 7 With what type of missile did Iraq attack Israel and Saudi Arabia in 1991? (4)

8 Who followed de Gaulle as president of France? (8)

10 Which James Dean film is an adaptation of a John Steinbeck novel? (4,2,4)

12 Which bees mate with the queen? (6) 13 What is a broad street lined with trees? (6) 15 Which constituent gives vinegar its sharpness? (6,4)

18 What is the classical literary language of the Hindu scriptures? (8)

19 What is a slang name for cocaine? (4) 20 Americans call it a diaper. What do we call it? (5)

21 What is a statistics expert who calculates insurance risks and premiums? (7)

DOWN

1 In legal documents, what word is often used for “children”? (5)

2 What is a fine dispersion of one liquid in another? (8)

3 What is a person whose occupation is to drive herds? (6)

4 What is insincere support expressed but not put into practice? (3,7)

5 What is a summary at the end of a novel of further developments in the lives of the characters? (4)

6 Who was singer Robin Gibb’s twin brother? (7)

9 Which communal dance involves shaking the limbs in turn? (5-5) 11 What type of snake is the world’s heaviest? (8)

12 What (Charles ____) was the real name of Lewis Carroll? (7) 14 Who had Vandals, Ostrogoths, Gepids and Franks fighting under his banner? (6)

16 Which decimal system of library classification is named after its deviser? (5)

17 What word is shouted out in a card game of the same name? (4)