General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. European mountain range (4)

3. French apple brandy distilled from cider (8)

9. Don, 1976 Olympic 200m winner (7)

10. Roman poet whose Pharsalia describes the civil war between Caesar and Pompey (5)

11. Imprisoned sea captain in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (6,6)

13. Vicente, Spanish novelist who wrote The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (6)

15. Rudolf, German engineer who invented a type of engine (6)

17. 1949 work by Simone de Beauvoir, a pioneering feminist text (3,6,3)

20. The nest of an eagle (5)

21. Miss Boyle, Olympic 200m silver medallist in both 1968 and 1972 (7)

22. Scottish body of water which supposedly houses a monster (4,4)

23. Rachel, actress who appeared in the 1984 film Against All Odds (4)

DOWN

1. Jacques, 1961-4 winner of the Tour de France (8) 2. Sacred song or hymn such as the 150 which constitute a book in the Old Testament (5)

4. See 16.

5. Flat bobbin lace named after a town in northern France (12)

6. Charles, author of Martin Chuzzlewit (7)

7. George, pen name of Amandine Dupin (4)

8. 1818 novel by Mary Shelley (12)

12. Source of linseed oil (8)

14. Official language of Ethiopia (7)

16 and 4. “The --”, 1988 novel by Robert Ludlum (6,6)

18. Ancient kingdom of the Sabeans (5)

19. Alexander Graham, inventor of the telephone (4)