General Knowledge Crossword

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4. Tall herbaceous plant used as a fodder crop (7) 8. The technical name

for the armpit (6) 9. Most famous creation of Bram Stoker (7) 10. Afro-Asiatic language written in the Greek alphabet but descended from ancient Egyptian (6) 11. American state whose capital is Topeka (6) 12. Andrew, Scottishborn U.S. steel industrialist who died in 1918 (8) 18. Margaret, author of Gone with the Wind (8) 20. Another name for

the bushbaby (6) 21. Anthony, aircraft engineer whose factory at Schwerin made warplanes for the Luftwaffe in World War Two (6) 22. Town in Massachusetts, scene of one of the opening military actions of the War of American Independence (7) 23. “--- Women”, novel by Louisa M. Alcott (6) 24. Name adopted by comedian Julius Marx (7)

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1. Tony, English comedian who committed suicide in 1968 in Australia (7) 2. 1968 Arthur Hailey

novel (7) 3. European flatfish, Pleuronectes platessa (6) 5. Small brightly

coloured parrot (8) 6. Italian port on the Adriatic, capital of the Marches (6) 7. Heavily built shorttailed oceanic bird of polar regions (6) 13. Biblical city associated with Sodom (8) 14. Samuel, author of play Waiting for Godot (7) 15. Castle in Ireland with a stone, the kissing of which is said to bestow the power of eloquent speech (7) 16. Dorothy, actress who appeared in the ‘Road’ series of films with Hope and Crosby (6) 17. Fu ---, villainous creation of Sax Rohmer (6) 19. Frédéric, Polish composer who died in 1849 (6)