General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Christian martyr whose feast day is February 14 (2,9) 9 and 3 Dn. 2001 novel by James Patterson (7,3,4)

10. Large spiral-horned antelope of eastern and southern Africa (5)

11. Mammal, Mellivora capensis, inhabiting wooded regions of Africa and Asia (5)

12. Erik, actor who played Ponch in the TV drama CHIPS (7)

13. Sean, author of The Plough and the Stars (6)

15. Property on a British Monopoly board between Free Parking and Chance (6)

18. Green mineral common in metamorphic rocks (7)

20. Lake --- lies between California and Nevada in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (5) Coniferous tree of the genus Larix (5) Territory of Canada created in 1999 out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories (7) Aromatic European plant also called myrrh (5,6) 22. 23. 24.

DOWN

2. Game fish such as Salmo trutta (5)

3. See 9 Across

4. Hanns, German composer who wrote the 1947 book Composing for the Films (6)

5. River which flows through Nottingham, central England (5)

6. River which flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario (7)

7. Welsh actor, songwriter and dramatist whose films included Autumn Crocus (4,7)

8. British prime minister 1970-74 (6,5)

14. 2001 novel by Minette Walters (4,3)

16. 1997 Best Picture Oscar winner (7)

17. Very small nocturnal fox inhabiting deserts of Arabia and N. Africa (6)

19. Natural earth containing ferric oxide, silica and alumina (5)

21. Václav, president of Czechoslovakia 1989-92 (5)

WORD WISE

The words may sound familiar, but do you know they mean?

CAMLET

A B C

Short sword Fortress Coarse cloth

LIMITROPHE

A B

CLiving in mud Interval in Pythagorean music Near a frontier