Quiz Crossword

ACROSS

7 Opera by Rossini first produced in Rome in 1817 (2,11) 8 One of the Leeward Islands in the S Pacific (4,4) 9 Mild yellow Dutch cheese (4) 10 Small antelope of semi-arid regions of Africa having an elongated muzzle (3-3) 12 Christine, 1978 Australian Open women’s singles tennis champion (6) 14 John, former singer with the pop group The Beatles who was murdered in 1980 (6) 16 Ronald, cartoonist best known as the creator of the schoolgirls of St Trinian’s (6) 18 1968 film biography of Gertrude Lawrence starring Julie Andrews (4) 20 Port in SW Iceland which houses a NATO airbase (8) 22 Rich spicy Chinese dish which traditionally contains swift saliva (5-4,4)

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1 Industrial city in Poland known from 1953-56 as Stalinogrod (8) 2 David, director of the 1987 film Wish You Were Here (6) 3 Roman emperor 54-68 (4) 4 Dame Ninette, Ireland-born ballet dancer and choreographer who died in 2002 (2,6) 5 DS, England Test batsman who scored 106 against West Indies at Nottingham in 1976 (6) 6 Small wingless blood-sucking insect noted for its power of leaping (4) 11 1933 film starring Fay Wray as Ann Darrow (4,4) 13 Land of midgets in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels (8) 15 Pablo, Chilean poet who won the 1971 Nobel prize in literature (6) 17 Andre, 1995 Australian Open men’s singles tennis cham- pion (6) 19 “The …”, 1967 Roger Corman film written by Jack Nicholson (4) 21 Mardy, 2003 Stockholm Open men’s singles tennis champion (4)