General knowledge crossword

ACROSS

7 Spain is the leading European producer of what vegetable? (6)

8 What is the chief monetary unit of Russia? (6)

10 What was the occupation of cartoon character Sad Sack? (7)

11 Who (Chris _____) was Wimbledon singles champion in 1974, 1976 and 1981? (5)

12 On what part of the body would you wear a toque? (4)

13 What is the name of a jumping character of A A Milne? (5)

17 Which company’s cinema newsreels were first introduced in France in 1909? (5)

18 What is a popular diminutive of the name Elizabeth? (4)

22 Which spiral-horned African antelope is the largest of this family? (5)

23 Which king of England was imprisoned with his brother in the Tower of London and never seen again? (6,1)

24 What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart? (6)

25 What word from Latin means “of last month”? (6) DOWN 1 James Dean died while driving what make of car? (7)

2 What make of car had models Minx and Hunter? (7)

3 800 people died in a rail disaster in which country in 1981? (5) 4 A tablet for sore throats, dissolved in the mouth (7)

5 Who wrote the play Peer Gynt? (5)

6 Fremantle is a port of which city? (5)

9 Who is the hypocritical, fawning clerk in Dickens’s David Copperfield? (5,4)

14 Which singer had a hit in 1978 with “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”? (3,4)

15 In which city was the record company Tamla Motown founded? (7)

16 What is a V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank? (7) 19 Who (Franz ____) composed The Merry Widow? (5) 20 Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in February 1945 at which Crimean port on the Black Sea? (5)

21 What is fabric woven to have a surface of diagonal parallel ridges? (5)