CROSSWORD General Knowledge No. 2,704

ACROSS

1 Prominent Royal Navy cruiser during the June 1940 Norwegian Campaign (10) 7 Stringed instrument popular in

the Baroque period (4)

8 US artist who painted The

Thames in Ice in 1860 (8) 9 Sister of Lachesis and Atropos

in Greek mythology (6)

10 Sea that surrounds Corfu and

Zakinthos (6)

11 Betsey Trotwood’s eccentric lodger in David Copperfield (2,4)

13 Onion-like plant with the Latin

name for ‘garlic’ (6)

15 Hindu creator of the Universe

(6)

18 Wife of the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi from 1961 to 1974 (6)

20 Coarse plain-woven cloth

used for making sacks (8) 21 The semi-circular recess at the

eastern end of a church (4) 22 Military captain in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens (10)

DOWN

1 German motor company that

merged with Benz in 1926 (7) 2 The open grasslands of South

Africa (5)

3 Christian Dior’s famous 1947

fashion style (3,4)

4 Country led to independence in 1804 by Toussaint L’Ouverture (5) 5 Dietary supplement taken to treat or prevent nightblindness (7)

6 46-mile river that flows from Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland (4)

12 Name of the narrator in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (7)

13 Light African spear commonly used before the advent of firearms (7) 14 1922 novel featuring the advertising agent Leopold Bloom (7)

16 British explorer who located the North Magnetic Pole in 1831 (4)

17 Variety of kidney bean grown in China and Japan (5)

19 First name of the Norwegian explorer Amundsen (5)