General Knowledge Crossword

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1. Famous novel by

Leo Tolstoy (3,3,5) 9. Chisel-edged tooth at the front of the mouth (7) 10. Jean, French landscape and portrait painter who died in 1875 (5) 11. English airport town in South Bedfordshire (5) 12. John James, US naturalist and artist whose works includes the paintings in 19c book Birds of America (7) 13. Cud-chewing mammal of South America (6) 15. Georges, French inventor of the neon light in 1910 (6) 18. In Arthurian legend, son of Lancelot and Elaine (7) 20. Spiny trailing Mediterranean shrub, Capparis spinosa (5) 22. Series of manned Soviet spacecraft named from the Russian ‘union’ (5) 23. Traditional Japanese system of unarmed self-defence perfected by the Samurai (7) 24. Character played by Liza Minnelli in Cabaret (5,6)

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2. English town noted for its Royal horse race meetings (5) 3. Toxic metalloid element, symbol: As (7) 4. A member of a Hellenic people who invaded Greece around 1100 BC (6) 5. Spanish soldier, original name Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (2,3) 6. Large deer of Arctic

regions (7) 7. US film actress whose films include 1916’s Intolerance (7,4) 8. President of FIFA,

1961-74 (7,4) 14. Tall Asian palm with large fan-shaped leaves used for thatching (7) 16. Spasmodic contraction of the jaw muscles, also called tetanus (7) 17. Villainous character in Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger (6) 19. Bush or tree bearing reddishbrown nuts (5) 21. Charles, French pioneer motion picture executive who originated a newsreel in 1909 (5)