General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Fruit of the palm tree Phoenix dactylifera (4)

3. Basil, actor who played Sherlock Holmes in the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles (8) 8. Joan, Spanish surrealist artist who died in 1983 (4)

9. ‘--- Song’, 1991 novel

by Wilbur Smith (8) 11. Volcanic island in the Pacific whose capital is Nouméa (3,9)

13. Independent state whose capital is Ottawa (6)

14. ‘Effi ---’, 1895 novel by Theodor Fontane (6)

17. Australian rugby union player first capped in 1982 at the age of 19 (5,7) 20. The left side of an aircraft and vessel when facing the nose or bow, also known as port (8)

21. ‘The Peer and the ---’, subtitle of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe (4) 22. Pancho, tennis player who took 5 hrs. 20 min. to defeat Charlie Pasarell at Wimbledon in

1969 (8)

23. Betelgeuse or Vega,

for example (4)

DOWN

1. Volcanic island republic in the West Indies whose capital is Roseau (8)

2. In soccer, the method of putting the ball back into play after it has gone into touch (5-2)

4. In World War II, the countries that fought against the Axis Powers (6) 5. Open-air course for chariot races in ancient Greece or Rome (10)

6. Mammal of the family Giraffidae of central Africa (5) 7. European trade association set up in 1960 (4)

10. Hana, 1985 U.S. Open tennis women’s singles champion (10)

12. Market town and resort on Jersey in the Channel Islands (2,6)

15. Highest mountain in

the world (7)

16. Card game for two played with 32 cards and king high (6)

18. Island off the coast of Scotland in the Firth of Clyde (5)

19. Terrestrial gastropod

mollusc (4) 1