CROSSWORDGeneralKnowledge SOLUTION to Chris Leyland No. 31:

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ACROSS

7 French writer of the 1933 novel La Condition Humaine ( 5,7)

9 Large marsh- bird with a deep

booming call ( 7)

10 Nigeria’s currency unit ( 5) 11 Surname of Carolyn Keene’s

girl detective Nancy ( 4) 12 Greek historian and philosopher who died in 354 BC ( 8)

14 Thorny shrub with attractive

orange flowers ( 8)

17 The French word for ‘ day’

( 4)

20 Earl of Gloucester’s legitimate son in King Lear ( 5)

21 1894 GB Shaw play with a clergyman’s wife as the title character ( 7)

23 1770 Gainsborough painting of a female society aristocrat ( 4,8)

DOWN

1 European airline founded in

Trollhättan in 1937 ( 4) 2 Princess who turns into a swan each morning in Swan Lake ( 6)

3 Largest city in the Spanish

province of Cádiz ( 5)

4 1964 film starring Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren ( 6)

5 New Jersey’s state capital ( 7) 6 Insurance company established in Switzerland in 1872 ( 6) 8 Composer of the 1869 symphonic poem Siegfried Idyll ( 6)

11 Pointed gardening tool for

making small holes ( 6) 13 Castle- like country house in a small village near Bangor, North Wales ( 7) 15 Commander of the British troops in the Crimean War ( 6) 16 Volcanic island at the northern end of the Bay of Naples ( 6)

18 Father of Horus in Egyptian

mythology ( 6)

19 Loire Valley grape also

called Chenin blanc ( 5) 22 92- mile English river that

flows past Keighley ( 4)

Across - 1 Merlin, 4 Flashing, 9 Rabbit, 10 Magician, 12 Illusion, 13 Tricks, 15 Eric, 16 Hocuspocus, 19 Honey bears, 20 Wand, 23 Cooper, 25 Toulouse, 27 Sorcerer, 28 Wizard, 29 West side, 30 Potter. Down - 1 Marmite, 2 Rebellion, 3 Iciest, 5 Loaf, 6 Stirrups, 7 Iliac, 8 Genesis, 11 Boloney, 14 Sunroof, 17 Coagulant, 18 Pyrenees, 19 Hacksaw, 21 Dreader, 22 Ultimo, 24 Ogres, 26 Reed.