CROSSWORD

General Knowledge No. 2,595

ACROSS

7 East Sussex castle where the Royal Observatory was housed from 1957 to 1988 (12)

9 The only English town to appear in the title of a Shakespeare play (7)

10 Nigeria’s currency unit (5) 11 Cold sea fog experienced off north-east England and southeast Scotland (4) 12 Westernmost island of the Greek archipelago of Sporades (8)

14 Name of the public house in the long-running series Emmerdale (8)

17 Old quayside measure of fresh

herring (4)

20 1986 musical that includes the

song You and I (5) 21 Archbishop of Canterbury

from 1533 until 1555 (7) 23 Tennyson poem written in

1835 (8,4)

DOWN

1 Cargo vessel commonly seen in

the Arabian Gulf (4) 2 Cambridge University’s

undergraduate magazine (6) 3 East Germany’s notorious secret police from 1950 to 1989 (5)

4 Libyan city besieged for 241

days in 1941 (6)

5 1989 film starring John Hurt as

Stephen Ward (7)

6 Swiss insurance company

founded in 1872 (6) 8 Norwegian explorer who won the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize (6)

11 Scottish Borders town 10 miles

south-west of Jedburgh (6) 13 World chess champion from

1969 until 1972 (7) 15 American state with Crater Lake as its only national park (6)

16 Aromatic plant of the parsley

family (6) 18 Scottish artist who painted

George III c1762 (6) 19 Sonya’s uncle in an 1898 play

(5)

22 Chewy chocolates launched

by Mackintosh’s in 1937 (4)