General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

3. Biscuit made from a rich dough (9)

8. Songbird of the genus Corvus (4)

9. 1959 Keith Waterhouse novel (5,4)

10. Justus, German chemist who discovered chloroform (6)

11. TV detective played by Telly Savalas (5)

14. Bird of marshes and river banks with a long straight bill (5)

15. Province of Pakistan (4)

16. ‘--- of Athens’, play by Shakespeare (5)

18. Island off the coast of Scotland (4)

20. Classical order of architecture (5)

21. White carbohydrate used as a sweetener (5)

24. Cambodian politician, leader of 11 Down (3,3)

25. Town in Buckinghamshire, England (9)

26. Town in Nevada famous for easy divorce procedure (4)

27. Industrial town in Pennsylvania on the River Conemaugh (9)

DOWN

1. Former duchy annexed by Prussia in 1864 (9)

‘The ---’, Graham Greene novel set in Haiti (9)

4. Alexander, Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state 1981-2 (4)

5. Viking founder of the duchy of Normandy (5)

6. Maria, operatic soprano who died in 1977 (6)

7. Ronald and Reginald, English criminals (4)

9. Georges, French composer of the opera Carmen (5)

11. --- Rouge, Cambodian communist party (5)

12. 1886 novel by R L Stevenson (9) ‘Sentimental ---’, novel by Gustave Flaubert (9)

17. Leonard, actor/ director who played Spock in Star Trek (5)

19. Stables cleaned by Hercules (6)

‘The ---’, 1820 novel by Walter Scott (5)

23. Fixer used in photographic developing (4)

24. The bow of a vessel (4) 2. 13. 22.

A B C

Trivial Second-hand Sweet tasting