GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PUZZLE

Across

1 Name the positively charged particle of an atom (6)

8 What is a person named to carry out the provisions of a will (8)

9 In racing, when a protest is not dismissed, it is said to be what (6)

10 Name the administrative centre of the Blue Mountains in NSW (8)

11 Which portable container is used for boiling water (6)

13 What is a Tibetan monastery called (8)

16 Which crystallised purple or violet quartz is used in jewellery (8)

19 Wimbledon is the international tournament centre for which ball game (6)

22 What is an alternative name for a lawbreaker (8)

24 Who are those people that are hired as crowd members in films (6)

25 Which spectacles have two lenses - one for near, and the other for far vision (8)

26 Name those fish which swim upstream to spawn (6)

Down

2 Name the monetary unit of India (5)

3 What is another term for larceny (5)

4 Name Australia’s most well-known bushranger (3,5)

5 With which arm does an orthodox boxer lead (4)

6 Which persons are sworn to deliver a verdict in a case submitted to them (6)

7 Which military aircraft is designed to carry and drop explosive weapons (6)

12 What is a ponderous volume called (4)

14 Which case, filled with soft material and inner springs, is used on a bed (8)

15 Name the Biblical garden which was the first home of Adam and Eve (4)

17 What is a small, round, thick, doughy tea cake (6)

18 What is an involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from fear, etc (6)

20 Which term relates to birth (5)

21 What is an adult insect called (5)

23 To be deprived of the sense of hearing is said to be what (4)