CROSSWORD

General Knowledge No. 2,598

ACROSS

7 High-altitude cloud with a

rippled appearance (12) 9 London borough that includes

Tulse Hill and Brixton (7) 10 Multinational technology company founded in California in 1968 (5)

11 First name of the French philosopher Descartes

(4)

12 Odin’s eight-legged horse in

Norse mythology (8) 14 French composer of the

1864 opera Lara (8)

17 Men’s grooming range launched by Fabergé in 1964 (4)

20 Mythical sister of Broteas

and Pelops (5)

21 Green, semi-precious variety

of olivine (7)

23 The detective in Wilkie Collins’ 1868 novel The Moonstone (8,4)

DOWN

1 Bridge bidding system named after a London road where a 1930s club met (4)

2 US president who was born in Lamar, Missouri, on May 8, 1884 (6)

3 Book that precedes Joel in

the Old Testament (5)

4 Old capacity measure equal

to four pecks (6)

5 Country in which the ancient ruins of Carthage are situated (7) 6 Derbyshire town near which

Poole Cavern is located (6) 8 Dark red wine from the

Bordeaux region (6) 11 Popular 1928 Mabel Wayne song recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (6) 13 An abnormal reaction to a

certain substance (7) 15 The king’s daughter in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (6) 16 Tool for cutting wood along

the grain (6)

18 Element that is the heaviest of the alkaline earth metals (6)

19 Island location of the Palace

of Knossos (5)

22 River on which Merthyr Tydfil

stands (4)