General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

3. Lake --- in N.W. Venezuela is the centre of the South American oil industry (9)

8. Kingsley, author of the novel Lucky Jim (4)

9. Lake --- lies in N.W. Saskatchewan and N.E. Alberta, Canada (9)

10. New York ---, US NBA basketball champions in 1970 and 1973 (6)

11. Greek author of fables (5)

14. Council region of South Island, New Zealand (5)

15. Capital of Japan 710-784 (4)

16. Group of French artists including Bonnard and Vuillard (5)

18. Prison on a US navy ship (4)

20. Small tree, Prunus persica, with rounded edible fruit (5)

21. Position-finding device used in underwater navigation (5)

24. William, US physician who brought a scientific basis to shoe fitting (6)

25. Boris, author of the novel Doctor Zhivago (9)

26. Evergreen tree of the genus Pinus (4)

27. Brightest star in the constellation Taurus (9)

DOWN

1. The first cricketer to be knighted (4,5)

2. Drug prepared from the leaves of the foxglove (9)

4. Creatures that live in a formicary (4)

5. Impure form of quartz (5)

6. Longest river in South America (6)

7. Johann Sebastian, German composer born in 1685 (4)

9. City in Ohio known as the ‘rubber capital of the world’ (5)

11. Fossil resin used for jewellery and ornaments (5)

12. Region of South America primarily in Argentina and Chile (9)

13. Johann, German composer best known for his Canon in D Major (9)

17. Benjamin, author of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (5)

19. Johann Wolfgang von ---, German poet who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther (6)

22. The main vessel in the arterial network (5)

23. Pauline, film critic whose volumes include 5001 nights at the movies (4)

24. River rising in Slovenia which flows to Belgrade (4)