General Knowledge Crossword

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1. 1928 play by Ben Hect and Charles MacArthur, often filmed (3,5,4) 7. Tony, South African cricketer who captained England from 1975-7 (5) 8. “King ---”, 1991 film which features John Goodman as an American king of Britain (5) 9. Flightless Australian

bird (3) 10. Best Actor Oscarwinner for the 1978 film Coming Home (3,6) 11. The skinned tail of an ox, used in soups and stews (6) 12. “The Island of Dr. ---”, novel by H.G. Wells (6) 15. Verdi opera originalty titled La maledizione (9) 17. American humour magazine founded in 1948 by William Gaines (3) 18. Robert Jordan’s lover in Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (5) 19. Madagascan primate with a long tail and foxy face (5) 21. 1974 novel by Frederick Forsyth (3,4,2,3)

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1. 1941 novel by Rex

Warner (3,9) 2. “A Pocket Full of ---”, novel by Agatha Christie (3) 3. City in Japan on Honshu island which houses a Buddhist shrine and two universities (6) 4. The capital of

Benin (5,4) 5. “The --Archipelago”, novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (5) 6. Nickname of ‘The Times’ newspaper in London since 1830 (3,9) 7. John of ---, son of Edward III and father of Henry IV of Britain (5) 10. New York school of

music (9) 13. “--- Gantry”, 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis about a U.S. evangelist (5) 14. German P.O.W. camp

in World War II (6) 16. Caleb, land agent in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (5) 20. --- Tse-tung, Chinese leader who died in 1976 (3)