General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

6. John, author of the 1937 novel Meet the Baron (7)

7 & 22A ‘The ---’, 1911 novel by D.H. Lawrence (5,7)

9. Fourth letter in the Greek alphabet (5)

10. Citadel in Moscow which contains the offices of the Russian government (7)

12. A player who has been awarded the highest title by the international chess federation, FIDE (11)

14. 42nd president of the United States (4,7)

18. The Japanese decorative art of flower arrangement (7)

19. Small curved lake constituting the remnant of a former meander (5)

21 & 4D Author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (5,6)

22. See 7 Across

DOWN

1. John, author of the 1958 play Live like Pigs (5)

2. Angela, author of the 1991 novel Wise Children (6)

3 & 11D The N.E part of the United States (3,7)

4. See 21 Across

5. Rod, actor who played Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago (7)

8. City in Italy on the River Po which was formerly noted for violin manufacture (7)

11. See 3 Down

13. Contagious inflammation of the eye also called acute conjunctivitis (7)

15. Island in Malaysia off the N.W. coast of Borneo whose chief town is Victoria (6)

16. The chief city of S. Mexico, founded in 1486 (6)

17. Tropical marine gastropod mollusc such as Aliger gigas (5)

20. A female swan (3)