General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

6. Geoffrey, author of The Canterbury Tales (7) 7. Character befriended by Nicholas Nickleby in Dickens’s novel (5) 9 and 21. 1935 W.C. Fields comedy film set in California (3,1,4) 10. Hypothetical region of space resulting from the collapse of a star (5,4) 12. A shrike, especially one of the genus Lanius (11) 15. A member of a Jamaican sect that regards Haile Selassie as God (11) 17. Board game in which balls are struck into holes, with pins as obstacles (9) 19. “The Hairy ---”, play

by Eugene O’Neill (3) 21. See 9. 22. Jan, Flemish painter whose works include The Adoration of the Lamb (3,4)

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1. Patrick, Australian novelist who won the 1973 Nobel prize for literature (5) 2. See 20. 3. “William ---”, opera

by Rossini (4) 4. Cold-blooded vertebrate such as the newt or salamander (9) 5. Old World bird, Alauda arvensis, noted for singing while hovering at a great height (7) 8. Richard, German naval commander at the 1916 battle of Jutland (6) 11. The German Air

Force (9) 13. Tree such as Coffea arabica whose seeds are used to make a beverage (6) 14. The Fascist movement founded in Spain in 1933 (7) 16. Vulcan played by Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek (5) 18. “King ---”, play by Shakespeare featuring the Duke of Cornwall (4) 20 and 2. 1880 novel by Lew Wallace featuring the character Messala (3-3)