General knowledge 953

(answers in next week's paper)

ACROSS

1 Edward —, author of the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (5)

5 Legendary king of Phrygia given the power of turning everything he touched into gold (5)

8 Lake on the border between Italy and Switzerland (6) 9 Large Old World monkey similar to a baboon (5) 10 The port of ancient Rome (5) 11 Seat of the king of Rohan in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (6) 13 Musical instrument that produces sound from pipes (5) 15 Deadly; mortal (6) 18 and 7. Detective story writer, creator of lawyer Perry Mason (4,7,7) 19 Sandy —, winner of the 1988 US Masters in golf (4) 20 Natural hydrated calcium sulphate (6) 24 Lady who was the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons (5) 26 Poisonous chemical compound whose accidental release caused the evacuations of Seveso in Italy and Times Beach in the USA (6) 27 1978 musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (5) 28 Devil, or evil spirit (5) 29 An official delegate or representative (6) 30 Sense to which the word olfactory relates (5) 31 Salmon in a nature book by Henry Williamson (5)

DOWN

1 See 2

2 and 1. The first major philosophical work by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1943 (5,3,11)

3 and 21. Maiden name of Mrs Henry Wood, author of East Lynne (5,5)

4 A dome-shaped Eskimo dwelling made of blocks of snow (5)

5 North American name for an elk (5)

6 People of the Netherlands (5) 7 See 18 12 “The Great” king of the West Saxons (6) 14 In Greek mythology, the god of the winds (6) 16 Name shared by ancient cities of Egypt and Greece (6) 17 Italian sausage (6) 21 See 3 22 Nicholas —, English schoolmaster who wrote the play Ralph Roister Doister (5) 23 Formal leave of absence from a school (5) 24 Great mountain system including Cotopaxi (5) 25 Dravidian language of southern India and Sri Lanka (5)