GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Novel by Charles Dickens

featuring Bill Sikes (6,5) 9 Wife of Mark Antony who died

in 11 B.C. (7) 10 1996 film by Joel and Ethan

Coen (5) 11 -- fever is a viral disease endemic in Central West Africa (5) 12 ‘Quentin --’, 1823 novel by

Walter Scott (7) 13 Northern diving bird with a black-and-white plumage and brightly coloured bill (6) 15 ‘Mary --’, novel by Elizabeth

Gaskell (6) 18 Sir Walter, explorer who introduced tobacco and potatoes into England (7) 20 Biscuit of unleavened bread traditionally eaten during Passover (5) 22 Any of various willow trees whose flexible branches are used for making baskets (5) 23 ‘-- the Fox’, poem by John

Masefield (7) 24 ‘The --’, 1968 novel by Alexander

Solzhenitsyn (5,6)

DOWN 2 Water lily such as the white --, which was regarded as sacred in ancient Egypt (5) 3 Rene, French prime minister 1914-15

(7) 4 African republic whose capital is

Kigali (6) 5 In Christianity, a thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist (5) 6 ‘The --’, 1963 film with Dirk Bogarde,

scripted by Harold Pinter (7) 7 Singer who starred in the 1980 film

Nine to Five (5,6) 8 The Mongol forces that devastated

E. Europe in the early 13c (6,5) 14 Federico, Italian film director of La

Dolce Vita (7) 16 Kaspar, central character in an 1895

novel by Joseph Conrad (7) 17 Jacques, President of France 19952007 (6) 19 Legendary Welsh giant who inspired poets and induced madness (5) 21 ‘-- Boss’, novel by J.T. Edson (5)