General knowledge 846

(answers in next week’s paper)

ACROSS

1. Word used to address a European man in colonial India (5) 5. See 8

8, 12 and 5 Across. Captain and leader of two Antarctic expeditions of 1901-4 and 1910-12 (6,6,5) 9. Musical form in which verses alternate with a refrain (5) 10. International airport in Chicago (5) 11. Hebridean island on which Fingal’s Cave is found (6) 13. A ritual monument of late Neolithic or Bronze Age Britain (5) 15. Region of Greece comprising Athens and surrounding area (6) 18. In Greek mythology, a Sicilian shepherd whose blood was turned into a river by Galatea (4) 19. See 1 Down 20. Edible bivalve shellfish (6) 24. Thick-bodied lizard with adhesive toes (5) 26. Evergreen shrub with scented leaves (6) 27. Name of four rulers in ancient Palestine (5) 28. Composition for nine instruments or voices (5) 29. One of a people of Arctic coasts, from Greenland to Alaska (6) 30. The scarlet-berried mountain ash (5) 31. An old saying (5)

DOWN

1 and 19. Designer of St. Paul’s Cathedral, after the Great Fire of London (3,11,4)

2. Chinese province whose capital is Changsha (5)

3. Scottish dish of oatmeal or peasemeal porridge (5) 4. Form of witchcraft practised in the West Indies (5) 5. Carnivorous mammal of the weasel family (5) 6. African ruminant mammal of the giraffe family (5)

7 and 21. Comedy by Shakespeare, set partly in Padua and partly in a country house (3,6,2,3,5) 12. See 8 14. Wading bird of the genus Limosa (6) 16. An infusion used as a beverage or for medicinal effects (6) 17. A small, stone fruit (6) 21. See 7 22. Port in Germany at the mouth of the Ems (5) 23. A room within a house (5) 24. Capital of the region of Liguria, northern Italy (5) 25. Type of Latin-American dance (5)