General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Aromatic wormwood of S. Europe, Artemisia abrotanum (12) 7. French port in Brittany, chief naval station of the country (5) 8. Domesticated South American cudchewing mammal (5) 9. Erect annual grass of temperate regions (3) 10. Small independent republic in the Apennines near Rimini (3,6) 11. Spanish dance in triple time (6) 12. William, English poet who founded the Kelmscott Press (6) 15. The armed services of the German Third Reich from 1935 to 1945 (9) 17. Large nonvenomous snake of the family Boidae (3) 18. ‘--- Days’, 1987 Woody Allen film (5) 19. Companion of Batman (5) 21. Part of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by the West Indies and South America (9,3)

DOWN

1. 1951 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin film (6,6) 2. Long-handled garden implement used to till the soil (3) 3. Light-sensitive membrane in the eye (6) 4. 1971 Nicolas Roeg film set in Australia (9) 5. Mammal of forests of central Africa with white stripes on the legs (5) 6. Chief of Police in Puccini’s Tosca (5,7) 7. The fruit of the areca palm is called the --- nut (5) 10. Island in the Lipari Islands famous for its active volcano (9) 13. Yitzhak, Israeli leader assassinated in 1995 (5) 14. Beetle regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine (6) 16. Very long faint constellation extending from near Virgo to Cancer (5) 20. The cry made by sheep (3)

Across: 1 Southernwood; 7 Brest; 8 Llama; 9 Oat; 10 San Marino; 11 Bolero; 12 Morris; 15 Wehrmacht; 17 Boa; 18 Radio; 19 Robin; 21 Caribbean sea. Down: 1 Sailor Beware; 2 Hoe; 3 Retina; 4 Walkabout; 5 Okapi; 6 Baron Scarpia; 7 Betel (nut); 10 Stromboli; 13 Rabin; 14 Scarab; 16 Hydra; 20 Baa.