CROSSWORD

General Knowledge No. 2,542

ACROSS

1 Variety of quartz that includes onyx and agate (10) 7 Mischievous god, father of the wolf Fenrir in Norse mythology (4) 8 Country in which the Precious Ramotswe detective novels are

set (8) 9 German astronomer who published Harmonices Mundi in 1619 (6) 10 US president from 1929 to 1933 (6) 11 Species of ground squirrel called a woodchuck in North America

(6) 13 Marco Polo’s name for China (6) 15 English writer of the 1934 novel Burmese Days (6) 18 Most northerly of Ireland’s four provinces (6) 20 Subatomic particle with zero charge and very little mass (8) 21 Gardener’s flat, wooden fruit basket (4) 22 Undertaker who, briefly, takes on Oliver Twist as an apprentice

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DOWN

1 Dangerous and infectious disease of the small intestine (7) 2 Sprite who does Prospero’s bidding in The Tempest (5) 3 1972 film set in a seedy Berlin club (7) 4 Nationality of the World War I spy Mata Hari (5) 5 Welsh city with a ruined castle beside the River Usk (7) 6 Youngest person in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five (4) 12 Austin/Rover saloon produced from 1982 until 1995 (7) 13 The charge carried by a constant current of one ampere in one

second (7) 14 Site in Wiltshire of the largest megalithic stone circle in the

world (7) 16 Large, three-toed, flightless bird of South America (4) 17 French river that reaches the Atlantic Ocean at Saint-Nazaire (5) 19 Stringed Indian instrument similar to a tanpura (5)