General Knowledge Crossword

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6. Jan, Delft-born painter of Woman Reading a Letter (7)

7. Pancho, Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt against the regime of Victoriano Huerta (5)

9. Petra, a founder of the Green Party in Germany who died in 1992 (5)

10. Wackford, character in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (7)

12. 1981 US Open women’s singles tennis champion (5,6)

14. Paris dance-hall which became famous when Toulouse-Lautrec designed posters for it (6,5)

18. Smooth hard yellow or white cheese named after a village in Somerset, England (7)

19. ‘The ---’, 1966 novel by John Fowles (5)

21. Member of a Native American people formerly living between the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers (5)

22. Another name for the Netherlands (7)

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1 & 17D Ghost in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (5,5)

2. Eric, author of The Mask of Dimitrios (6)

3. Insect, of the superfamily Apoidea (3)

4. Larry, New Yorkborn painter whose works include Washington Crossing the Delaware (6)

5. Genus of North American plants cultivated for their red, purple or pink flowers (7)

8. Circle of the earth which divides the N. and S. hemispheres (7)

11. 1989 film documenting a 1963 affair between Christine Keeler and John Profumo (7)

13. Chiricahua Apache chief who died in 1874 (7)

15. Lake in Russia drained by the River Neva to the Gulf of Finland (6)

16. Betty, US actress who was ‘The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs’ (6)

17. See 1 Down

20. ‘The --- Story’, play by Edward Albee (3)