The Independent on Saturday

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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ACROSS: 3 What is an indigenous armed resistance fighter (8)

7 Australia’s Olympic medallist, Cathy Freeman is renowned as a what (6)

8 Name an occlusion of a blood vessel caused by some undissolve­d material (8) 9 To devise something new, as by ingenuity, is to what (6)

10 What is a large dirigible (8)

11 Which plant yields edible grain such as wheat, rye, oats, etc. (6)

14 What is a structure that spans a river or the like (6)

17 Name a person who improves what is wrong or corrupt (8)

18 What is a rigid bracelet having no clasp (6)

19 Name a popular dish consisting of eggs, beaten and fried with other ingredient­s (8)

20 What are light coloured beers called? (6)

21 In mathematic­s, to be formed by two planes is to be what (8)

DOWN: 1 Which intensely hot enclosure is used to smelt ores, etc. (7)

2 Which aromatic substance is burnt in religious ceremonies (7)

3 What is a crisp stick-like dry biscuit, salted on the outside (7)

4 In Australian history, what was a mounted policeman (7)

5 To be adept at something is to be what (7)

6 What do we call the person selected for a position (7)

11 What is the amount that a motor vehicle is able to carry (7)

12 To reinvigora­te by rest, is to what (7) 13 What do we call a scatterbra­ined or frivolous person (7)

14 Name an item of apparatus used in weight-lifting (7)

15 Which era followed the Stone, Bronze and Dark Ages (4,3)

16 What is a building devoted to the exhibition of works of art (7)

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