General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Skirt or coat reaching to below the knee or midcalf (4)

3. ‘The ---’, 1950 film starring Jack Warner as P.C. George

Dixon (4,4)

8. Tim, lyricist of the

musical Evita (4) 9. Father of Miranda in the Shakespeare play The Tempest (8) 11. 1975 novel by Joseph Wambaugh (3,9)

13. Hernando, Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi (2,4)

14. Roman goddess of

the dawn (6)

17. 1937 book by John

Steinbeck (2,4,3,3) 20. Italian dessert made with sponge soaked in coffee and Marsala (8)

21. Paul, Swiss artist whose works include The March to the Summit (4) 22 & 7D ‘The ---’, 1975 film starring Paul Newman (8,4)

23. 2000 film starring

Ian Hart and Megan Burns (4)

DOWN

1. Rider who won the 1994 and 1996 Badminton Horse Trials (4,4)

2 & 15D ‘The ---’, play by John Webster published in

1623 (7,2,5)

4. Philip, author of the verse collection The Whitsun Weddings (6)

5. Town and seaside resort in East Sussex, England (10)

6. Tex, film cartoon director who created Daffy Duck (5)

7. See 22 Across

10. 1934 novel by Dashiell

Hammett (3,4,3)

12. German inland port at the confluence of the Rivers Neckar and Rhine (8)

15. See 2 Down

16. E.F., British author of the 1920 novel Queen Lucia (6)

18. 1996 film by

Joel Coen starring Frances Mcdormand (5)

19. ‘The ---’, 1970 novel

by Jackie Collins (4)