General knowledge crossword

ACROSS

1 What fruit is also called a Japanese quince? (8)

7 Which tropical fruit belongs to the

Myrtle family? (5)

8 What is another name for the nashi fruit? (5,4)

9 Which state of western India is bordered on the east and south by Karnataka? (3)

10 What word can precede goose, job and blind? (4)

11 What has replaced laces on many children’s shoes? (6)

13 The song “I Dreamed a Dream” is from which musical? (3,10)

15 What small round fruit with sweet white flesh is popular in Chinese restaurants? (6)

16 What is the side post of a doorway or window? (4)

18 What flour is used to make pumpernickel bread? (3)

20 Which burial ground of Anglo-Saxon kings and ships in Suffolk has been called “page one of English history”? (6,3)

21 What do beekeepers use to calm their bees? (5)

22 In mythology, which three-headed dog guarded the entrance to Hades? (8)

DOWN

1 Levi Strauss is credited with originating what? (5)

2 What does a toxicologist study? (7) 3 After how many years of marriage is a pottery anniversary celebrated? (4)

4 What sweet mint-flavoured liqueur comes in either green or white? (5,2,6)

5 What tropical fruit tree is mentioned in Rudyard Kipling stories? (5)

6 What fruit is exported by the million from Ecuador? (7)

7 What describes a straight nose that continues the line of the forehead without a dip? (7)

12 What is the district under the pastoral care of a bishop? (7)

13 What killed Scotland’s Robert the Bruce? (7)

14 Cordovan is a kind of soft what? (7)

15 What is an informal name for an unreliable or defective car? (5)

17 Bibliophobia is the irrational fear of what? (5)

19 What is the lower, fixed cutting part of a handpiece of a sheep-shearing machine? (4)