GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Spanish soup made from tomatoes and peppers and served cold ( 8)
5. Word used by proof readers to cancel a previous correction ( 4)
9. Hideki, Japanese premier, 1941- 44 ( 4)
10. Breed of blackand- white dairy cattle, also called Holstein ( 8)
11. Nick, 1996 US Masters golf champion ( 5)
12. See 21 Across
13. English town in the West Midlands with a football team nicknamed Wolves ( 13)
18. A set or peal of bells of different tones ( 8)
19. French Riviera resort founded by Phocaeans from Marseille ( 4)
20. Gianluigi, footballer transferred from Torino to Milan in 1992 for a world record fee ( 7)
21 & 12Ac. 1995 English Grand National- winning horse ( 5,7)
22. Henry, founder of the London Proms ( 4)
23. 1937 novel by James M Cain ( 8)
DOWN
2. The alligator pear ( 7)
3. Bulgarian city on the River Maritsa, capital of Roman Thracia ( 7)
4. Person or animal having normally both sexual organs ( 13)
6. Three- pronged sceptre, symbol of Neptune ( 7)
7. Welsh village with a Cistercian abbey ( 7)
8. “The Taking of --- 123,” 1974 film starring Walter Matthau ( 6)
13. County in Leinster, Republic of Ireland, whose mountains include the peak Lugnaquillia ( 7)
14. Character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, husband of Jessica ( 7)
15. Long, narrow, sweet cake filled with cream ( 6)
16. Gambling card game also called vingt et un ( 7)
17. “The Cherry ---,” play by Anton Chekhov ( 7)