GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 See 9 4 Peninsula region of Denmark (7) 8 Gerald, author of My Family and

Other Animals (7) 9 and 1 Ac U.S. outlaw murdered in

1882 (5,5) 10 Leguminous plant of the East Indies whose inner bark yields a fibre used in making rope and sacking (4) 11 -- bars was the men’s gymnastics discipline won at the 1976 Olympics by Sawao Kato (8) 13 and 14 1989 suspense film with

Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman (4,4) 14 See 13 Ac. 16 Poetic imaginary flower that never fades, as in Walter de la Mare’s All That’s Past (8) 17 Max, 1934 world heavyweight

boxing champion (4) 20 River of Pakistan which rises in

Tibet (5) 21 Japanese decorative art of flower

arrangement (7) 22 Chinese puzzle in which a square, cut into five triangles, a square and a parallelogram is turned into figures (7) 23 American football team from

Chicago (5)

DOWN

1 Apostle who betrayed Jesus for

thirty pieces of silver (5,8) 2 1974 novel by Gore Vidal (5) 3 ‘Demon --’, 1977 film based on a

story by Dean R Koontz (4) 4 Calendar introduced by Julius

Caesar in 46 B.C. (6) 5 White marble mausoleum in Agra

built by Shah Jahan (3,5) 6 Biblical character, third son of

David (7) 7 1874 three-act operetta by Johann

Strauss the younger (3,10) 12 Strait of Indonesia which separates Sulawesi from Kalimantan (8) 13 Basil, director of the 1966 film

Khartoum (7) 15 Upper chamber of each half of

the heart (6) 18 Capital of the Pacific island of

Guam (5) 19 Captain Matthew, first man to

swim the English Channel (4)