Cyprus Today

General knowledge 875

(answers in next week’s paper)

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ACROSS

1. Game played with little glass balls (7)

4. Flock of geese (6) 7 and 8. Nickname of a heroine of Deadwood, South Dakota mining camps (8,4) 9. Substance turning litmus red (4) 11. Winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa (7) 12. Loch, in the Highlands, part of the Caledonian Canal (4) 14. A donkey (3) 15. Saint, leader of the apostles (5) 16. Wingless, blood-sucking insect (5) 19. First name of the novelist famous for Anna Karenina, etc. (3) 21. Another name for a cobbler (4) 22. “That damned, —Pimpernel” (7) 23. According to Matthew, 5, the —- “shall inherit the earth” (4) 25. The brightest star in Lyra (4) 26. An artist who makes drawings for cartoon “movies” (8) 27. The identifyin­g uniform of a member of a guild (6) 28. In mythology, paradise, or

Island of the Blessed (7)

DOWN

1. Chinese game played with small painted bricks or “tiles” (7) 2. Muscle with two heads (6) 3. Speech or writing in praise (6) 4. Lace having no ground or mesh (7)

5. Spanish painter and engraver famous for The Disasters of War, etc. (4) 6. In the Old Testament, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt (6) 10. Ferryman who conveyed souls across the Styx, in legend (6) 13. Dancer who requested the head of John the Baptist from Herod (6) 17. Composite plant also called purple goat’s beard (7) 18. The third son of King David, killed by Joab (7) 19. First name of Gulliver of Gulliver’s Travels (6) 20. Timber or stone over a doorway or window (6) 21. Fine porcelain characteri­sed by a deep pink or royal blue background (6) 24. Type of cabbage with wrinkled leaves (4)

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