General knowledge crossword
ACROSS
1 The shrub Japanese quince is also called what? (8)
7 Before hospitals, in what did a Finnish woman like to give birth? (5)
8 Who was president of North Vietnam from 1954 to 1969? (2,3,4)
9 What is a long thin feathered scarf? (3)
10 An escritoire is a type of what? (4)
11 David Bellamy lectured in what from 1960 to 1982? (6)
13 Pieces of what dark frothy basaltic lava are ejected from a volcano? (6)
14 Who (Lee ___) had a job at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas? (6)
17 In Louisiana, what is a native-born person of French ancestry? (6)
18 Which model Morris car, introduced in 1930, had an “American” look? (4)
20 Achieving a golf hole in the standard number of strokes is what? (3)
22 What hormone promotes female characteristics? (9)
23 What is the first part of a cow’s fourchambered stomach? (5)
24 What cocktail contains rum and lime juice? (8)
DOWN
1 What is a holy war undertaken by Muslims against unbelievers? (5)
2 Which painter had a blue period and a rose period? (7)
3 Who was the melancholic hippie in TV’s
The Young Ones? (4)
4 What type of sunglasses can be attached to spectacles? (4-2)
5 What game has types union and league?
(5) 6 Which of King Arthur’s knights sought the Holy Grail? (7)
7 What form of Japanese therapy literally means “finger pressure”? (7)
12 What hinged thing on the back of an aeroplane’s wing controls the aircraft’s roll? (7)
13 A monarch holds what ceremonial staff? (7)
15 What slender iron-tipped wooden spear is used in southern Africa? (7)
16 Where is Prince William Sound? (6)
17 What is a painful involuntary contraction of a muscle? (5)
19 In the Bible, on which mountain did Moses receive the Law from God? (5)
21 Where is the city of Mosul? (4)