General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

3. Common sedimentary rock (9)

8. ‘The --- Goodbye’, novel by Raymond Chandler (4)

9. Character in Graham Greene’s The Third Man (5,4)

10. Catherine of ---, first wife of Henry VIII (6)

11. Edvard, Norwegian composer who died in 1907 (5)

14 & 23D 1983 Burt Lancaster film directed by Bill Forsyth (5,4)

15. Decapod crustacean of the genus Cancer (4)

16. Single-celled fungus used in fermenting beer (5)

18. Golda, Israeli prime minister 1969-74 (4)

20. Cockroach in various volumes of verse by Don Marquis (5)

21. Hard crayon used by artists named after an 18c chemist (5)

24. ‘The ---’, 1943 western film directed by Howard Hughes (6)

25. 14th-century BC Egyptian queen; wife of Akhenaton (9)

26. West Indian shrub: a source of indigo (4)

27. Broad track in Hyde Park, running from Hyde Park Corner to Kensington Palace (6,3)

DOWN

1. South Africa-born England Test cricketer who played for Orange Free State in 1988 (5,4)

2. The --- Circle is the imaginary line around the earth at latitude 66 ° 32’ S (9)

4. The --- Islands are a group of three off the W. coast of Ireland (4)

5. Albrecht, German painter and engraver noted for his woodcuts (5)

6. Member of a Central American Indian people whose capital was Tula (6)

7. ‘The --- of the Rose’, novel by Umberto Eco (4)

9. Tree or shrub of the genus Ilex (5)

11. Miss Kelly, actress who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco (5)

12. 1986 album by Paul Simon (9)

13. 1913 volume of poems by Robert Frost (1,4,4)

17. William, 1992 Olympic 800m champion (5)

19. Mammal of the order which includes rats and mice (6)

22. Dorothy, English actress who made her New York début in 1963 (5)

23. See 14 Across

24. Nikolaus, German engineer who invented the four-stroke internal combustion engine (4)