General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Game at which Mike Russell became world champion in 2002 (9)

8. Pop group who performed the title song of the 1987 film The Living Daylights (1-2)

9. 2002 novel by Joanne Harris (11)

11. Greenishyellow variety of chrysoberyl (4-3)

12. One-act opera by Rachmaninov (5)

13. Northern diving bird having a brightly coloured vertically flattened bill (6)

15. The --- snake, Morelia variegata, is a nonvenomous creature of central Australia (6)

17. The Isle of --is a county of England (5)

18. John, author of Tinker, Tailor,

Soldier, Spy (2,5)

20. US inventor and painter of the 1830 work The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco (6,5)

22. Small Old World songbird of the genus Parus (3)

23. 1993 Robert Altman film based on stories by Raymond Carver (5,4)

DOWN

2. Mr. Andric, 1961 winner of the Nobel prize for literature (3) 3, 7 & 19Dn. 1906 novella by H.G.

Wells (2,3,4,2,3,5)

4. Rob, director of the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap (6)

5. Bedrich, Czech composer of the opera The Bartered Bride (7)

6. ‘The ---’, 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film which won a Best Picture

Oscar (4,7)

7. See 3 Down

10. Seaport in N.

Chile situated in a desert region (11)

11. Promontory at the N.W. extremity of the Scottish mainland (4,5)

14. Narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, such as the --- of Panama (7)

16. In physics, the fraction of the incoming light reflected by a planet (6)

19. See 3 Down

21. A series of games in a tennis match (3)

The word may sound familiar, but do you know what it means?

STIGMA A B C

Mark of infamy

Base of a flower Arthritis of the joint of four-legged mammal

OTIC A B C

Rigid

Pertaining to the ear To bind round with thread