Quiz Crossword

ACROSS

1 Chief port of and largest city of Tanzania (3,2,6) 9 Highest mountain in the world (7) 10 County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Ennis (5) 11 River that flows through Nottingham, central England (5) 12 and 21 Down Ngaio Marsh novel that has also been published as Night At The Vulcan (7,5) 13 William, Scottish winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (6) 15 Island nation of the Pacific Ocean whose capital is Funafuti (6) 18 Kwame, President of Ghana 1960-66 (7) 20 Lisa, actress whose film roles include Marie DeSalle in High Fidelity (5) 22 Tall annual grass, Zea mays, that is also called Indian corn (5) 23 The point in its orbit around the earth when the moon is nearest the earth (7) 24 WBA Welterweight champion from December, 2006 (6,5)

DOWN

2 Another name for the white poplar (5) 3 1909 opera by Richard Strauss (7) 4 Hal, 1983 USPGA golf champion (6) 5 John, English liberal philosopher who authored An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (5) 6 High-quality aromatic coffee bean (7) 7 The fifth book of the Old Testament (11) 8 Novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1824 (11) 14 A cocktail of gin and dry vermouth (7) 16 ... I, king of Italy, was assassinated at Monza in 1900 (7) 17 City and capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India (6) 19 Lake ... lies on the Zambia-Democratic Republic of the Congo border (5) 21 See 12 Across