General Knowledge Crossword

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1. “--- Voyage”, 1966 film with Raquel Welch (9) 8. Castrated domesticated male pig (3) 9. Maximilien, French Jacobin leader executed in 1794 (11) 11. In America, a dog used in hunting to retrieve game birds (4,3) 12. Hardy, fashion designer appointed dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II (5) 13. Substance obtained from potatoes which is used to stiffen fabric (6) 15. Stephanus, Boer statesman known as ‘Oom Paul’ (6) 17. “My Own Private ---”, 1991 film with Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix (5) 18. Name given to a Londoner born within the sound of the Bow bells (7) 20. Musical about a chorus dancers’ audition (1,6,4) 22. One of the dwarfs in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (3) 23. Squire in Stevenson’s Treasure Island (9)

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2. “Much --- About Nothing”, comedy by William Shakespeare (3) 3. President of Syria between 1971 and 2000 (5) 4. Actress and former model originally called Lesley Hornby (6) 5. Privateer, especially of the Barbary Coast (7) 6. Musical play by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on a novel by Margaret Landon (3,4,3,1) 7. Novel by Anne Brontë featuring Mr. Weston (5,4) 10. Actress who played Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (7,4) 11. Torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten (9) 14. Needlework in which the yarn is looped into a pattern of stitches by means of a hooked needle (7) 16. Card game for two played with 32 cards and king high (6) 19. --- Rica, Central American republic whose capital is San José (5) 21. Collective noun for a

flock of pheasants (3)