GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PUZZLE

Across: 1 Name an alternative term for bondservants (6)

8 On which pieces of apparatus do circus performers swing (8)

9 What is the occupation of one who makes beer (6)

10 Name the practice of seeking the welfare of others (8)

11 What is a ticket or paper used in voting (6)

13 Name the direction from where the sun rises (8)

16 A person working for another for pay, is a what (8)

19 What is a large cage in which birds are kept (6) 22 Name a traveller – especially on foot (8)

24 When one provides a source of income, one does what (6)

25 Which alternative word describes an ancestor (8)

26 Name the gastropods that have only one, so-called, foot (6)

Down: 2 What describes the young of an insect which undergoes metamorphosis (5) 3 Which voiced speech sound is not a consonant (5)

4 In other words, what is a generalship (8)

5 What do we call the actors in a play, or the like (4)

6 What describes something of special elegance (6)

7 Name an alternative term for a ship (6)

12 What is a device used as a means of illumination (4)

14 Name the renowned 1891 Queensland strike protesting against pastoralists’ attempts to use non-union labour (8)

15 Name the capital of Latvia (4)

17 In Britain, what is a piece of grassland used for pasture (6)

18 To be raised above the ground is to be what (6)

20 Which federal republic in S Asia is often called the subcontinent (5)

21 Name the small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur (5)

23 What is a particular shipping hazard (4)