General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. The chief river of Somalia (4)

3. Tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands formerly called the king’s evil (8)

8. 1991 Steven Spielberg film based on works by J.M. Barrie (4)

9. Member of the police force in France (8)

11. Mstislav, Russian cellist and composer born in 1927 (12)

13. Fats, US jazz and rock-and-roll pianist born in 1928 (6)

14. See 23 Across

17. Author of King Rat (5,7)

20. ‘The ---’, 1920 play by John Galsworthy (4,4)

21. German city whose English name is Cologne (4)

22. George, blind jazz musician who composed Lullaby of Birdland (8)

23 & 14A Province of Canada whose capital is Halifax (4,6)

DOWN

1. Husband of Lorna Doone in Blackmore’s novel (4,4)

2. ‘--- Like the Rose’, 1970 novel by Norah Lofts (7)

4. Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty who built the largest pyramid at El Giza (6)

5. Second period of the Palaeozoic era during which marine invertebrates flourished (10)

6. Group of languages which includes Hungarian (5)

7. Seaport in Yemen, formerly a British colony (4)

10. Borodin opera set in Polovtsia (6,4)

12. Canadian singersongwriter whose hits include 1957’s Diana (4,4)

15. The rapid repetition of a note on a violin produced by quick bow movement (7)

16. ‘The --- Cometh’, play by Eugene O’Neill (6)

18. --- Springs, town in central Australia (5)

19. Ancient Egyptian fertility goddess, wife of Osiris (4)

WORD WISE

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

EXIGENT

A B C

Urgent

Leaving quickly Take out of the ground

GAUCHE

A B C

Jolly Clumsy Morbid