GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. English county whose administrative centre is Chichester (4,6)

7. Addictive narcotic drug extracted from the seed capsules of the plant Papaver somniferum (5) 8. Thieving birds with black and white plumage (7)

10. Plant, Beta vulgaris, whose dark red root is eaten in salads (8) 11. Soft white cheese similar to Camembert (4) 13. Administrative centre of Devon in England (6) 15. Capital of Albania (6) 17. In Greek mythology, the god of war (4) 18. 1834 novel by Harrison Ainsworth featuring Dick Turpin (8)

21. Former province of south-west Japan famous for its porcelain (7)

22. Raul, actor who played Gomez in the 1991 film The Addams Family (5) 23. English city, seat of the University of Kent (10)

DOWN

1. Jimmy, 1980 world amateur snooker champion (5) 2. English county whose administrative centre is

Taunton (8) 3. Biblical character whose mistress was Delilah (6) 4. Plant whose greygreen leaves are used in cooking for flavouring (4) 5. Country which includes the

Dahlak Islands in the Red Sea (7) 6. Stringed instrument of the violin family (6,4) 9. National park in Virginia established in 1935 to protect part of the Blue Ridge

Mountains (10) 12. Mammal aka the honey bear (8) 14. In Greek myth, daughter of

Agamemnon, sister to

Orestes (7)

16. Long soft hair of the Angora goat (6) 19. Birthplace of cabinetmaker Thomas

Chippendale (5) 20. William Holman

__, English painter and founder of the

Pre-raphaelite

Brotherhood (4)