General knowledge crossword

ACROSS

1 Which lake is Africa’s largest? (8)

7 What is the name of the small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear? (5)

8 Who played Peggy in television’s Hi-De-Hi! ? (2,7)

9 In scoring games, what is “no points”? (3)

10 What is the highest adult male singing voice? (4)

11 What describes a sharp bend in a road, or a golf hole where the fairway has a bend? (3-3)

13 Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels? (8,5) 15 According to the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, whose heirs would become kings? (6)

16 What is the hood of a monk’s habit called? (4)

18 What is a long thin stole made of feathers or fur? (3)

20/21 Life Among the Lowly is the alternative title of which antislavery novel? (5,4,5)

22 In rhyming Cockney slang, what occupation is “ginger beer”? (8)

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1 Who is the Roman goddess of the hearth and household? (5)

2 What is a revolving cylinder for winding an anchor cable or a halyard? (7)

3 Which international airport lies 14km south of Paris? (4)

4 Which American dancer lost her children in a 1913 car crash then died in 1927, strangled by her scarf caught in a car wheel? (7,6)

5 What sweet substance is called “frosting” in America? (5)

6 Which American-born poet became a British subject in 1927? (1,1,5)

7 Doilies is the only one-word English anagram of what word? (7)

12 What small, light British automatic firearm was widely used in WWII? (4,3)

13 What is an Australian colloquial word for a sheep? (7) 14 Magnetite is a type of what? (4,3)

15 Whose mother is shot dead in a 1942 Walt Disney film? (5) 17 What type of beam reads bar codes? (5)

19 What is a French military cap with a horizontal peak called? (4)