GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across

7. Formula 1 racing team formed in 1977 and based in Oxfordshire (8)

9. Salad consisting of lettuce, egg, croutons and parmesan cheese, attributed to an Italian restaurateur in 1924 (6)

10. American actor who played the role of advertising executive Don Draper in the television series Mad Men (4)

11. Chart representing successive generations of related people (6,4)

12. According to the Book of Genesis, a mighty hunter who was the greatgrandson of Noah (6)

14. Walk Like An __, 1986 song by American all-female band The Bangles (8)

15. According to the nursery rhyme he was under the haystack, fast asleep (6,3,4)

17. Person suffering from a partial or total loss of memory (8)

19. World’s second smallest country, whose two ports are Hercules and Fontvielle (6)

21. Aerospace company, founded 1958, which specialises in business aircraft (10)

22. Corvus frugilegus, black-feathered bird named in 1758 by Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus (4)

23. “Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the __, or the painter?”: Pablo Picasso (6)

24. Strong light metal with the atomic number 22, discovered in 1791 by the Reverend William Gregor (8)

Down

1. Capital city of Rwanda, located in the centre of the country (6)

2. Round or oval fruit with varieties such as damson, greengage, Mirabelle and Victoria (4)

3. National flower of Wales, traditionally worn on St. David’s Day (8)

4. FBI Special Agent character in the sci-fi television series The X-Files (6)

5. Athletic contest consisting of five different events (10)

6. New Zealand beach which featured in the 1993 drama film The Piano (8)

8. Irish novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 (6,7)

13. Physicist who said: “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment” (10)

15. Region of central France known for its chestnut red cattle of the same name (8)

16. Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 (8)

18. Student or graduate who works for a period of time in order to gain experience (6) 20. In Greek mythology, a mortal youth who was turned by the gods into a plant bearing his name (6)

22. 1987 single by British electronic pop duo The Pet Shop Boys (4)