General Knowledge Crossword

6. 1987 Paul Verhoeven film with Peter Weller (7) 7. ‘The --Archipelago’, novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (5) 9. River which flows into the Atlantic at Lisbon (5)

10. Large lake situated in Montenegro and N.W. Albania (7)

12. Ancient Roman galley with five banks of oars on each side (11)

14. Land in Gulliver’s Travels inhabited by giants (11)

18. Woodwind instrument, the tenor of the oboe family (7)

19. Mr. Richard, singer/ actor born in Lucknow, India (5) 21. King, director of the 1956 film War and Peace (5)

22. ‘The ---’, painting of Jonathan

Buttall by Thomas Gainsborough (4,3) 1. Fine sweet wine of

Hungary (5)

2. Sese Seko, president of Zaire since 1965 (6) 3. Sebastian, 1980 Olympic 1500m champion (3)

4. Billy, fat schoolboy created by Frank Richards (6)

5. Type of ornamental work made from knotting and weaving coarse thread (7)

8 & 17D Name given to Hunnish king

Attila (7,2,3)

11. Tooth at the front of

the mouth (7)

13. Independent European state whose capital is Zagreb (7)

15. State capital of

Massachusetts (6) 16. River in France rising in the Cévennes (6)

17. See 8 Down

20. ‘The ---’, 1986 David Cronenberg film with Jeff Goldblum (3)