General knowledge crossword

ACROSS

7. Person involved in a lawsuit or dispute (8) 7 9. Eugene __, novel in verse by Russian author Alexander Pushkin, written between 1825 and 1832 (6) 10. Animal which features in an Aesop fable (4) 11. Art Garfunkel song, the UK’s biggest selling single in 1979 after it appeared in the animated film Watership Down (6,4) 12. Short-sighted (6) 14. Transition metal, atomic no. 22, used to make strong, light, corrosion-resistant alloys (8) 15. Labour-saving device invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 (8,5) 17. French renaissance writer and physician whose name is associated with the bawdy jokes and songs he was fond of (8) 19. Australian tennis player who was world No. 1 and won the US Open in 2001, and won Wimbledon in 2002 (6) 21. Title character in Charles Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel (5,5) 22. Breed of short-haired tail-less cat (4) 23. Hindu divinity worshipped as preserver of worlds (6) 24. ____ Bankhead, flamboyant American actress, 1902-1968 (8)

DOWN

1. Of or pertaining to a number system which has 2 as its base (6) 2. Prong of a fork, pitchfork or antler (4) 3. Europe’s largest arts centre, home to the London Symphony Orchestra (8) 4. One of the surviving original tokens in Monopoly (3,3) 5. “There is only the ___ __ __. The past is gone, forgotten”: Tom Robinson (4,3,3) 6. Brand of soap manufactured by Lever Brothers since 1895 (8) 8. 1961 song covered by The Beatles on their first album, Please Please Me (5,3,5) 13. A public boxing match fought for money, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries (10) 15. In architecture, a triangular area between two adjacent arches and the plane above them (8) 16. Golfer with the nickname ‘Wild Thing’, winner of 1991 US PGA and 1995 British Open (4,4) 18. First name of the author of 1931 novel Brave New World (6) 20. Character in the Wizard of Oz who was looking for a heart (3,3) 22. Second largest of the Hawaiian islands, known as the ‘Valley Isle’ (4)