General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Welsh portrait painter whose works include 1923’s Madame Suggia (8,4) 7. European freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca (5) 8. “Key ---”, 1948 Humphrey Bogart film based on a play by Maxwell Anderson (5) 9. “Mad ---”, 1979 film starring Mel Gibson (3) 10. Waxy structure constructed by bees (9) 11. Another name for

the rook in chess (6) 12. River which flows

though Dublin (6) 15. Venomous tropical marine fish that resembles a piece of rock on the seabed (9) 17. Mr. Deighton, author of Funeral in Berlin (3) 18. Spirit in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (5) 19. Dried excrement of fish-eating sea birds which is used as a fertiliser (5) 21. 1818 story by Mary

Shelley (12)

DOWN

1. Cloth covering the back and arms of chairs to prevent soiling (12) 2. Record label associated with Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley (3) 3. Burmese diplomat, secretary general of the UN 1962-71 (1,5) 4. Marine creature with a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body (9) 5. Name adopted by comedian Arthur Marx (5) 6. 1848 novel by Charles Dickens featuring Captain Cuttle (6,3,3) 7. American state whose capital is Austin (5) 10. Friedrich, German lyric poet whose works include Hyperion (9) 13. Nick, 1990 US Masters golf champion (5) 14. Alfred, character in Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (6) 16. Willow tree whose twigs are used for making baskets (5) 20. Mammal of the

horse family (3)