General Knowledge Crossword

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6. Unit of heat equal to 4.1868 joules (7) 7. --- Swell, 1944 Epsom Derbywinning horse (5) 9 & 10Ac. 1988 football European Cup winners (3,9) 10. See 9 Across 12. 1930 novel by W Somerset Maugham (5,3,3) 15. Welsh Rugby League player who scored a career total of 560 tries, 482 for Wigan (5,6) 17. John, US criminal shot dead in Chicago in 1934 (9) 19. The name by which the Royal Botanic Gardens in London are known (3) 21. Roy, former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland midfielder (5) 22. South American river which forms part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela (7)

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1. Tree, Ochroma lagopus, with very light wood (5) 2. Biblical character whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt (3) 3. Nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand (4) 4. Box-shaped instrument of the reed organ family (9) 5. Fawn-coloured antelope of Africa and Asia (7) 8. Charles, US cartoonist, major contributor to The New Yorker, who died in 1988 (6) 11. Sponge teacake, an 18th-century speciality of Bath (5,4) 13. Chris, boxer who won the WBC and WBO middleweight titles in 1990 (6) 14. “Mrs ---”, 1942 Best Picture Oscarwinner (7) 16. Rosaceous tree, Prunus persica, which bears a rounded edible fruit (5) 18. “Jane ---”, novel by

Charlotte Brontë (4) 20. Either of two antelopes of Africa also called the wildebeest (3)