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General Knowledge No. 2,662

ACROSS

1 Composer and lyricist for the 1956 musical High Society (4,6)

7 2001 film in which Jim Broadbent won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar (4) 8 Brand of typewriter dating

from 1909 (8)

9 German writer who married Christiane Vulpius in 1806 (6)

10 Hindu place of monastic

retreat (6)

11 County where Lough Corrib, the Republic of Ireland’s largest lough, is located (6) 13 European city that has Marienplatz as its central square (6)

15 Brand-name disinfectant launched in the UK in 1938 (6)

18 First name of the German

engineer Diesel (6) 20 Element of which 50 per cent is used in the production of glass (8)

21 Name of three rulers of the historical European region of Wallachia (4)

22 Thomas Hardy character who ‘lives in sin’ with Sue Bridehead (4,6)

DOWN

1 Andalusia’s third largest city

(7)

2 Hungarian composer who died in Bayreuth, Germany in 1886 (5) 3 Name of fifteen rulers of

ancient Egypt (7) 4 Cucumber and yoghurt side

dish in Indian cuisine (5) 5 1872 Samuel Butler novel with a fictional country as its title (7)

6 Covered walkway first designed in the Greek Doric order (4)

12 French artist who painted La

Surprise in 1718 (7) 13 Percussion instrument similar

to a xylophone (7) 14 Traditional site of Jesus

Christ’s crucifixion (7) 16 Heaviest of the three swords

used in fencing (4)

17 River that reaches the Atlantic Ocean at SaintNazaire (5)

19 Notorious French highwayman executed at Tyburn in 1670 (5)