GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 As a retirement Mecca, which US state trebled in population between 1960 and 1990? (7)

4 What transparent object refracts light into rainbow colours? (5)

7/8 Who has played on recordings by Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Merle Haggard, The Monkees, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and The Mamas & the Papas? (4,8) 10 Transience is the only one-word anagram of what word? (10)

12 What type of song was originally sung by sailors as an accompaniment to work? (6) 13 Harold Dennis “Dickie” Bird gained fame as a what? (6)

15 Which flowering South African perennial plant of the lily family is popular for banks and borders? (10)

18 Venice is on a lagoon of which sea? (8) 19 What woollen cloth is made by rolling and pressing to mat the fibres together? (4) 20 What are ground in the habit of bruxism? (5)

21 Technically, what is the breastbone? (7)

DOWN

1 Actor Ron Moody is most associated with which character? (5)

2 What garment is a surtout? (8)

3 The word coffee originated from what language? (6)

4 What flavour is a humbug sweet? (10)

5 What bearded mountain goat of Eurasia and northern Africa has large backward curving horns? (4)

6 Under what pseudonym did Jean-baptiste Poquelin write plays? (7)

9 What instrument with pivoted levers is used for copying drawings to any desired scale? (10)

11 In inches, how wide is a basketball ring? (8)

12 English mathematician John Hadley and American inventor Thomas Godfrey independently invented what thing used at sea? (7)

14 What insects excrete honeydew? (6)

16 What Yiddish word means silent or noncommunicative? (5)

17 What soft, mild creamy cheese comes from northern France? (4)