GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

ACROSS

1 Which calculating contrivance consists of beads strung on wires (6)

7 Name one of Australia’s amphibious egg-laying monotremes (8)

8 What are the young of insects called (6)

9 Name an alternative term for thousands (8)

10 Name a US city in NE New Jersey (6)

11 Which classes of alcoholic drinks are usually strong, sweet and highly flavoured (8)

14 Phnom Penh is the capital of which SE Asian republic (8)

18 Name the bush bread made from flour and water (6)

19 What do we call an attendant who collects and pays money at a gaming table (8)

21 To which Native American group did

Geronimo belong (6)

22 What is a “triantelope” also called (8)

23 Name a more readily known term for any plaid (6)

DOWN

1 Which ocean lies to the east of the Americas (8) 2 What is a legal notice suspending a certain proceeding (6)

3 To have small spots on the skin is to be what (8) 4 What were the “three wise men” called (4)

5 Which mineral is “fools gold” (6)

6 What is a flock of crows also known as (6)

12 Which term designates a quarter of a circle (8) 13 From which fish is caviar obtained (8)

15 What is an alternative word for a courtyard (6) 16 Name the ship captained by William Bligh, on which the crew mutinied in 1789 (6)

17 To make something worse, is to do what (6)

20 What are distinctive doctrines (4)