CROSSWORD General Knowledge

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ACROSS

7 Derbyshire mansion

completed in 1597 ( 8,4) 9 Fictional detective who lived on Boulevard Richard- Lenoir ( 7)

10 Coniferous tree of the

Pinaceae family ( 5)

11 River central to a 1957 epic film directed by David Lean ( 4)

12 Austrian composer born in a

suburb of Linz in 1824 ( 8) 14 Pen- name of the 18th century philosopher François- Marie Arouet ( 8) 17 Bond villain played by the American actor Richard Kiel ( 4)

20 Corkscrew- shaped tool for

boring holes in wood ( 5) 21 Musical instrument that features in The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ( 7)

23 Artist who was married to Barbara Hepworth from 1938 until 1951 ( 3,9)

DOWN

1 Thin metal spacer used in

tiling ( 4)

2 Herbal tincture applied to

sprains and bruises ( 6) 3 Middle name of the British PM

William Gladstone ( 5) 4 Mostly black duck with a

swollen bill ( 6)

5 Main protagonist in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice ( 7) 6 Coin first issued in England

by Edward III in 1344 ( 6) 8 The lighthouse at Alexandria, a wonder of the ancient world ( 6)

11 Heat- resistant synthetic fibre invented by Stephanie Kwolek in 1965 ( 6)

13 Italian- American word for an innkeeper or restaurant owner ( 7)

15 Small sailing ship extensively used for smuggling from the 1750s ( 6) 16 Extravagant art style known in Britain as ‘ the French taste’ ( 6)

18 Umbrian town badly damaged by an earthquake in 1997 ( 6)

19 Scottish town nine miles east

of Stirling ( 5)

22 River that flows through Pisa

( 4)