ACROSS DOWN

1 What Italian dish has a rice

base? (7)

4 Who sculpted The Thinker?

(5)

7 Anatomically, what is the hip

joint or bone? (4)

8 What swinging thing was

studied by Galileo? (8)

10 In which maritime city was

Charles Dickens born? (10)

12 What is a heraldic dragon and a 1950s model of Vauxhall car? (6)

13 Once thrown at Italian weddings, what were confetti originally? (6)

15 Whose stories about Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox were related in books by Joel Chandler Harris? (5,5)

18 What explosive device is laid under the surface of the ground? (8)

19 What can be on a building,

bird and rugby team? (4)

20 What stringed instrument is thought to have originally come to India from Persia? (5)

21 Which English poet is best known for his major work The Faerie Queene? (7) 1 What is to summarise

briefly? (5)

2 Dr John Kellogg hoped his cornflakes would reduce the eater’s what? (3,5)

3 What (___ pine) is another

name for the Douglas fir? (6)

4 Which singer described his own voice as “black velvet on sandpaper”? (3,7)

5 Poetically, what is a small

wooded hollow? (4)

6 A numerologist studies the occult significance of what? (7)

9 “Moon starer” is an anagram

of what word? (10)

11 Which 1990 film saw Cher’s character romantically involved with Bob Hoskins’s? (8)

12 What are the fleshy lobes hanging from the head and neck of a turkey? (7)

14 Holland, a smooth, hardwearing linen from the Netherlands, is used mainly for what? (6)

16 Muscovado is a type of

what? (5)

17 Tied by King Gordius, what was cut through by Alexander the Great? (4)