GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 & 7Ac. English actor born Maurice Micklewhite (7,5) 7. See 6 Across 9. Erich, author of Love Story (5) 10. “The --- of Raleigh”, 1870 painting by Millais (7) 12. 1959 novel by Muriel Spark (7,4) 14. Californian town, a centre of oil production and refining (11) 18. Silvery-white metallic element, an essential constituent of bones and teeth (7)

19. Form of quartz used as a gemstone and in making pestles and mortars (5) 21 & 22Ac. 1987 Grand National-winning horse (5,7)

22. See 21 Across

DOWN

1. African republic whose capital is Niamey (5) 2. Ancient country in the Balkans successively under the Persians, Macedonians and Romans (6) 3. The standard monetary unit of Japan (3) 4. Unit of length of six feet used to measure depths of water (6) 5. Mountainous principality in the Pyrenees (7) 8. Film which won Jessica Lange a Best Supporting Actress Oscar (7) 11. Scale of temperature on which 100? represents the boiling point of water (7)

13. “--- to Vaccares”, novel by Alistair Maclean (7) 15. Card game similar to Écarté (6) 16. In music, a style of playing in which no perceptible gaps are left between notes (6) 17. Large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae (5) 20. Japanese school of Buddhism of 12th-century Chinese origin (3)