General Knowledge Crossword WORD WISE

ACROSS

1. André, French physicist who died in 1836 (6) 4. Long-legged shore

bird (6)

9. 1980 world professional snooker champion (5,8)

10. ‘The --- Seat’, novel

by Muriel Spark (7) 11. Capital of Japan (5) 12. Vessel used in fishing along the British coast (5)

14. 7c B.C. Athenian statesman and lawmaker (5)

18. ‘The --- and His Boy’, Narnia novel by C.S. Lewis (5)

19. North American fish similar to the herring (7)

21. American model/ actress who starred in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon (6,7)

22. Bar placed across the poles of a permanent magnet when not in use (6) 23. Tree of tropical India and the East Indies whose aerial roots grow down into the soil (6)

DOWN

1. The idealised setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry (6) 2. Raymond

Chandler detective creation (6,7)

3. Long barrelled

firearm (5) 5. Balthazar, South African Prime Minister 1966-78 (7) 6. 1963 Wimbledon men’s singles tennis champion (5,8) 7. Band of white tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone (6) 8. Card game for four, a forerunner of bridge (5)

13. Headmaster in Dickens’s David Copperfield (7)

15. Southern African antelope, Pelea capreolus (6)

16. The Indo-European language of modern Iran (5)

17. Liam, actor who starred in Schindler’s List (6) 20. Miss Jong, author of

Fear of Flying (5)

The word may sound familiar, but do you know what it means?

KINDLE

A B C

Provoke

Native land

Silk embroidered with gold thread

BRYONY

A B C

Genus of climbing plant The feminine of Brian A devotee of Byron’s works