General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. “The ---”, Harold Pinter play of 1957 (4,6) 7. Mr. Khan, former Pakistan Test cricket captain (5) 8. Lobster --- is a dish of lobster cooked in a rich cream sauce flavoured with sherry (7) 10. Mr. Keillor, humorist whose books include Lake Wobegon Days (8) 11. Tom Sharpe novel

of 1976 (4) 13. Battle of 31BC in which Mark Antony and Cleopatra’s fleet was defeated by Octavian (6) 15. American ragtime dance involving shaking of the hips and shoulders (6) 17. Alliaceous plant

used in cooking (4) 18 & 21Ac. German inventor who, in 1885, built one of the earliest roadworthy motor cars (8,7) 21. See 18 Across 22. Albert, German architect and Nazi government official who died in 1981 (5) 23. 1958 Brendan

Behan play (3,7)

DOWN

1. Albrecht, German painter and engraver regarded as the inventor of etching (5) 2. French title of address equivalent to Mr (8) 3. See 14 Down 4. American state whose capital is Des Moines (4) 5. Mass of sand and silt which is a product of the erosion of rocks (7) 6. The Madagascan primate Lemur catta is better known as the --- lemur (4-6) 9. 1863 battle in the American Civil War (10) 12. Almost landlocked inlet of the Barents Sea on the coast of N.W. Russia (5,3) 14 & 3Dn. 1942 Raymond Chandler novel featuring Philip Marlowe (3,4,6) 16. William, English craftsman and poet who set up the Kelmscott Press (6) 19. In Greek mythology, the goddess of peace (5) 20. Sacred river in Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan (4)