General knowledge 845

(answers in next week’s paper)

ACROSS

1 Surname of the brothers who formed the Bee Gees (4) 4 A piece of solemn funeral music (4,5)

8 and 9. Dark room in which images of outside objects are thrown on a screen (6,7)

9 See 8

10 Sam, soul singer who had a Top Ten hit single in 1960 with Chain Gang (5)

12 Cabbage with a turnip-shaped stem (8)

16 City in California which elected Clint Eastwood mayor in 1986 (6) 17 Richard Attenborough film that won the 1982 Oscar for Best Picture (6) 18 and 14 Down. Story by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrated by Jim Hawkins (8,6) 21 and 19 Down. Germany as a dictatorship (1933-45) (5,5) 25 Ferocious South American river fish (7)

26 Kind of hat named after a novel by George du Maurier (6) 27 An impostor or quack (9) 28 Atoms that can be cations or anions (4)

DOWN

2 An insect in its final adult state (5) 3 Fish of the carp family whose scales are used in making artificial pearls (5)

4 One of the Cinque Ports in Kent, where Julius Caesar is said to have landed in 55 BC (4)

5 Little grebes (9)

6 Companion star of Mizar in the constellation Ursa Major (5) 7 Mediterranean tree also called algarroba (5) 10 Tough cord used for musical instruments, tennis rackets and sutures (6) 11 Evergreen tree bearing blossom and fruit at the same time (6) 13 Giorgio —, Italian fashion designer born in 1935 (6) 14 See 18 15 Tiny dog with big eyes and pointed ears (9) 19 See 21 20 See 23 22 Novel for children by Johanna Spyri (5)

23 and 20. Well-known rhyme by Lady Caroline Keppel (5,5) 24 Public school founded in 1440 (4)