West Sussex County Times

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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1. Detective priest created by G.K. Chesterton (6,5) 9. Large deer found in Asia and Europe (3) 10. Game played with a shuttlecoc­k (9) 11. Stevie, singersong­writer associated with rock group Fleetwood Mac (5) 13 and 19 Dn. Nickname given to Hunnish King Attila (7,2,3) 14. B., author of novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (6) 16. Name formerly given to the eastern shores of the Mediterran­ean Sea from W. Greece to Egypt (6) 18. André, French general who defeated the Russians at Zürich in 1799 (7) 19. Daisy with long white petals (5) 20. Stuart, film director whose works include Cool Hand Luke (9) 21. “A Pocket Full of ---”, Agatha Christie novel (3) 22. The stern part of a ship’s upper deck, usually reserved for officers (11)

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2. Seabird with short wings and black and white feathers (3) 3. Sir John, known as Jack, English cricketer who made 197 centuries in first class cricket (5) 4. Plant of the mustard family eaten raw in salads (6) 5. Thick horizontal undergroun­d stem of plants such as the iris (7) 6. Political scandal associated with U.S. President Richard Nixon (9) 7. English actor who played pilot Douglas Bader in film Reach for the Sky (7,4) 8. 1954 novel by Iris Murdoch (5,3,3) 12. Romanian President shot in 1989 (9) 15. Forename of Mrs. Roosevelt (7) 17. A cell that functions in reproducti­on by merging with another of its kind to form a zygote (6) 19. See 13 Ac. 21. Gigantic bird of Arab legend (3)

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