General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. In a stock exchange, a speculator who sells hoping for falling prices in order to make a profit on repurchase (4)

3. See 10 Down

8. Genus of plants of the Mediterranean with arrow-shaped leaves and a typically white spathe (4)

9. Creature also called the scaly anteater (8)

11. 1976 play by Michael Frayn (7,5)

13. Clyde, US aviator who in 1917 designed a monoplane with a cantilever wing (6)

14. Husband of Titania in medieval folklore (6)

17. Shakespeare play featuring Malvolio (7,5)

20. European country whose capital is Lisbon (8)

21. John Stuart, 19thcentury English philosopher (4)

22. Native American tribe of the Great Plains (8)

23. In Greek legend, sister and wife of Zeus (4)

DOWN

1. James, boxer nicknamed ‘the Cinderella Man’ (8)

2. St. Thomas, 13th-century theologian whose feast day is 7 March (7)

4. Andre, 1994 US Open tennis singles champion (6)

5. Sandbank in the North Sea between N. England and Denmark (6,4)

6. Any of the 12 broad-faced grinding teeth in man (5)

7. Another name for the European sea eagle (4)

10 & 3A Actor who played twins in the 1991 film Double Impact (4-6,3,5)

12. Asian part of Turkey occupying the peninsula between the Black Sea, Aegean and Mediterranean (8)

15. 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow (7)

16. ‘The Andromeda ---’, novel by Michael Crichton (6)

18. Shane, Australian Test bowler (5)

19. Organisation formed in 1961 to administer a common policy for the sale of petroleum (4)