CROSSWORD

General Knowledge No. 2,596

ACROSS

1 English poet whose only play is entitled The Borderers (10)

7 Furry red Muppet on TV’s

Sesame Street (4) 8 1668-1733 French composer of harpsichord and organ music (8)

9 Musical direction meaning

‘briskly’ (6)

10 South-east London district within the borough of Greenwich (6)

11 Measure of current named

after a French physicist (6) 13 Second largest in area of

Pakistan’s four provinces (6) 15 Mother of Achilles in Greek

mythology (6)

18 Megalithic tomb with a large flat stone over upright ones (6)

20 Shropshire centre of porcelain from 1795 to 1926 (8)

21 George Clooney’s wife (4) 22 Norwich City FC’s home

ground (6,4)

DOWN

1 Name of four English/British monarchs since the Norman Conquest (7)

2 Spanish wine split into the areas of Alta, Baja and Alavesa (5)

3 Commercially important

species of Pacific salmon (7) 4 Part of a plant that contains

the female germ cell (5) 5 New Jersey’s state capital (7) 6 Jonathan Harker’s wife-to-be

in Dracula (4)

12 Miss Havisham’s haughty adopted daughter in Great Expectations (7)

13 Cornish town associated

with the chef Rick Stein (7) 14 Early 12th century philosopher, lover of Héloïse (7) 16 British battlecruiser sunk on

May 24, 1941 (4)

17 River on which Canterbury

stands (5)

19 In South America, a treeless

grassy plain (5)

SOLUTION to Jeremy Mutch No. 1443: Across - 1 Pastry, 4 Decrease, 9 Orbits, 10 Educated, 12 Prisoner, 13 Murder, 15 Raid, 16 Ostensible, 19 Over-the-top, 20 Exam, 23 Throng, 25 Overture, 27 Charisma, 28 Rabbit, 29 Litigate, 30 Weirdo. Down - 1 Prosper, 2 Subsidise, 3 Ration, 5 Ends, 6 Recourse, 7 Acted, 8 Endorse, 11 Measles, 14 Resolve, 17 Box number, 18 Standing, 19 Optical, 21 Maestro, 22 Grease, 24 React, 26 Smut.