GK CROSSWORD

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1. 1862 satire in verse by Henrik Ibsen (5,6)

9. Town in Nigeria, a centre of the cacao trade (3)

10. ‘The -- Soldier’, operetta by Oscar Straus (9)

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

13. The Cocos Islands of the Indian Ocean are also known as the -Islands (7)

14. African republic whose capital is Luanda (6)

16. Capital of Saskatchewan, Canada (6)

18. In modern hymn singing, a freely written or improvised soprano part added to a hymn tune (7)

19. -- del Rio, provincial capital of Cuba associated with the tobacco trade (5)

20. In American football, a scoring play achieved by being in possession of the ball in the opponents’ end zone (9)

21. Mr. David, lyricist and former cowriter with Burt Bacharach (3)

22. Crime-writer creation of Dorothy L. Sayers (7,4)

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2. Lyric poem, typically addressed to a particular subject (3)

3. 11th century Spanish soldier whose original name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (2,3)

4. 1968 novel by John Wyndham (6)

5. North American freshwater fish such as Hiodon tergisus (7)

6. Family of languages including Tamil and Telugu (9)

7. Terry Gilliam film which features Ian Holm as Napoleon (4,7)

8. Actor whose television roles include Mr. Waverly in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (3,1,7)

12. -- bark is the bitter aromatic bark of certain South American trees formerly used medicinally to reduce fever (9)

15. Material associated with a third wedding anniversary (7)

17. Woody, character actor who played the title role in John Ford’s Sergeant Rutledge (6)

19. Valeri, Belarus-born ballet dancer who resettled in Israel in 1974 (5)

21. Adult female of the domestic fowl (3)