General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1 & 6D 1977 Hitchcock spoof by Mel

Brooks (4,7)

3. 1828 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8)

9. Bar or wine shop in a Spanish-speaking country (7)

10. 1960 novel by Henry

Miller (5)

11. 1972 Olympic marathon winner (5,7)

13. In the Roman Catholic Church, a series of prayers counted on a string of beads (6)

15. Any of a group of proteins produced by living cells which act as catalysts in biochemical reactions (6)

17. 1947 novel by

Nabokov (4,8)

20. Hot molten rock formed in the earth’s upper mantle (5) 21 and 8 Dn. U.S.

title of 1953 novel by Agatha

Christie (7,7,5)

22. In cartography, a latitudinal grid line (8)

23. Alexander Graham, inventor of the

telephone (4)

DOWN

1. Taylor, director of the film An Officer and a Gentleman (8) 2. Italian port, capital

of Liguria (5) 4. Member of a North American Indian people inhabiting the southwestern U.S. and N.

Mexico (6)

5. Port in California which developed rapidly during the gold rush (3,9)

6. See 1 Across

7. ‘--- of Eden’, novel by John Steinbeck (4)

8. See 21 Ac.

12. 1978 play by Harold

Pinter (8)

14. 1981 Epsom Derbywinning horse which was abducted in 1983 (7)

16. ‘The Trouble with ---’, 1960 novel by John Wyndham (6) 18. Roger, New Zealand batsman born in Devon, England (5) 19. ‘The ---’, 1976 suspense film with Gregory Peck (4)