General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

3. 1855 novel by Anthony

Trollope (3,6)

8 & 24D ‘Road to ---’, 1961 film starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope (4,4) 9. 1951 opera by Benjamin

Britten (5,4)

10. Jonathan, character in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (6)

11. Extra playing

card (5)

14. 1923 children’s book

by Felix Salten (5)

15. ‘--- Man’, 1984 film

by Alex Cox (4)

16. Arabella, character in Dickens’s Pickwick Papers (5) 18. The --- 500 is a US

motor race (4)

20. Mr. Khan, former Pakistan cricket captain (5)

21. Greek author of

fables (5)

24. David, leader of the a cult who held a siege in Waco, Texas (6)

25. Lizard which has the ability to change colour (9)

26. In Greek mythology, sister and wife of Zeus (4)

‘The ---’, stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur (5,4) 27.

DOWN

1. 1937 novel by

J.R.R. Tolkien (3,6) 2. Constellation between Pegasus and Cassiopeia (9) 4. 1967 musical with music by Galt Macdermot (4) 5. Middle name of US poet Ralph Emerson (5)

6. A match of three

games in bridge (6) 7. Mary Baker, founder of the Christian Science Movement (4) 9. Lavrenti, Soviet chief of secret police executed in 1953 (5)

11. Mint --- is a long drink of bourbon whisky, ice, sugar and mint (5)

12. Breed of gun

dogs (9)

13. In English history, a supporter of Parliament against Charles I (9)

17. Richard, 37th president of the US (5)

‘The --- of the Guard’, Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan (6)

22. Lowest deck in a vessel with four or more decks (5)

23. Antony, actor/ author who wrote Middlepost (4)

24. See 8 Across 19.