General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

7. 1955 novel by John Wyndham (3,10)

8. Italian city in Tuscany on the River Arno (8)

9. Former Chinese secret society believed to engage in criminal activities (4)

10. In Greek mythology, stables cleaned by Hercules who diverted the River Alpheus through them (6)

12. Bloodsucking African fly of the genus Glossina (6)

14. US space station launched in May 1973 (6)

16. Tropical plant of the East Indies cultivated in India for its small oval seeds (6)

18. Terrestrial gastropod mollusc with an absent or reduced shell (4)

20. Lynda, actress/ dramatist who created the Prime Suspect series of television dramas (2,6)

22. 1948 Irwin Shaw novel set in the second World War (3,5,5)

DOWN

1. Large brightly coloured gooselike duck (8)

2. Gerald, English cartoonist who designed the animated sequences for the film Pink Floyd: The Wall (6)

3. Archaic or poetic name for Ireland (4)

4. Any of various fibrous minerals such as tremolite (8)

5. “--- Spirit”, Noël Coward play featuring Madame Arcati (6)

6. In Norse mythology, the supreme creator god (4)

11. Element produced artificially from curium whose symbol is No (8)

13. Interval between adjacent notes on a keyboard instrument (8)

15. In cricket, a run scored after the ball has hit a part of the batsman’s body, except the hand (3,3)

17. Joseph, Soviet leader who died in 1953 (6)

19. Bert, actor who played the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (4)

21. Frederick Handley, English aircraft manufacturer (4)