Quiz Crossword

ACROSS

1 Country singer known for her 1975 single Stand By Your Man (5,7) 7 Cud-chewing mammal adapted for surviving long periods without food or water in desert regions (5) 8 Shrub or small tree of the genus Sambucus having black berrylike fruits (5) 9 The standard monetary unit of Japan (3) 10 FW, New York-born businessman who established a five-cent store in 1879 (9) 11 Any of a series of manned US spacecraft such as … 11, which landed on the moon in 1969 (6) 12 Plant of the East Indies cultivated for its spicy hot-tasting underground stem (6) 15 Citadel of Athens on which the Parthenon stands (9) 17 Annual climbing plant, Pisum sativum, whose green pods contain edible seeds (3) 18 Greek author of fables (5) 19 European republic whose capital is Rome (5) 21 “The …”, 2002 film featuring Heath Ledger and Kate Hudson (4,8)

DOWN

1 Actor who played the detective Kojak on television (5,7) 2 Twining plant of the genus Dioscorea cultivated for its edible tuber (3) 3, and 10 Down “The …”, story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1892 (6,4-5) 4 Small alpine flowering plant, Leontopodium alpinum, having white woolly oblong leaves (9) 5 AJ, England cricketer who took 5-44 against Australia in the Trent Bridge Test in 2001 (5) 6 British air marshal nicknamed Bomber who died in 1984 (6,6) 7 1980 novel by Michael Crichton set in Africa (5) 10 See 3 13 Small brightly coloured freshwater fish, Lebistes reticulatus, popular in aquaria (5) 14 European flatfish, Pleuronectes platessa, having an oval brown body (6) 16 Rene, actress whose roles include Kate Mullen in the 1996 film Ransom (5) 20 Small social insect which lives in a formicary (3)