General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Institution at Washington DC which comprises a national museum, zoo, art gallery and observatory (11)

9. Warren, 29th president of the US (7)

10. Cathedral city in N.E. Italy (5)

11. Jawaharlal, first prime minister of India (5)

12. Salvador, president of Chile from 1970 to 1973 (7)

13. Number represented by the letters XI in Roman numerals (6)

15. Swiss headquarters of the Red Cross organisation (6)

18. City and province in Lombardy, Italy (7)

20. Spanish soldier whose real name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (2,3)

22. Musical direction indicating that a piece should be played slowly (5)

23. Portuguese port on the River Sado partially destroyed in a 1755 earthquake (7)

24. 1916 novel by John Buchan (11)

DOWN

2. Gum resin from trees of the genus Commiphora used in perfumes (5)

3. In ancient Rome, an officer commanding a legion for twomonth periods (7)

4. Paul, French neoimpressionist painter and follower of Seurat (6)

5. Asian kingdom whose capital is Katmandu (5)

6. Musical direction indicating that a piece be performed at walking pace (7)

7. 1961 Ian Fleming novel (11)

8. Somerset Maugham novel featuring the novelist Alroy Kear (5,3,3)

14. Forename of the wife of US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (7)

16. Mr. Weekes, West Indian batsman who scored 4455 runs in 48 Tests from 1948-58 (7)

17. Two-wheeled onehorse carriage with a fixed hood (6)

19. Martin, New Zealand cricketer who took over the captaincy in 1990 (5)

21. High-level computer programming language designed for general commercial use (5)