General Knowledge Crossword

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1. 1937 film starring Sabu in the title role (8,3)

9. Edgar Allan, author of The Pit and the Pendulum (3)

10. Predatory insect with a large head and eyes and iridescent wings (9)

11. Miss ----, character in Dallas played by Barbara Bel Geddes (5)

13. Offshore race sailed from Cowes, Isle of Wight, to Plymouth, Devon (7)

14. George, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry (6)

16. Henri, chief-of-state at Vichy following the collapse of France in 1940 (6)

18. Walter Scott novel featuring Torquilstone Castle (7)

19. Lake --- lies in the Sierra Nevada Mountains between California and Nevada (5)

20. River which rises in Turkey, flowing across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris (9)

21. ‘Colonel ---’, 1968 novel by Robert Markham a.k.a. Kingsley Amis (3)

22. Ancient region of S.W. Asia between the Tigris and 20 Across (11)

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2. Robert E., Confederate general in the American Civil War (3)

3. Chaplain in the armed forces (5)

4. Italian resort on the Gulf of Salerno (6)

5. 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman as ‘Dorothy Michaels’ (7)

6. Jacques, composer of The Tales of Hoffmann (9)

7. J. Robert, director of the atom bomb project at Los Alamos from 194345 (11)

8. 1990 world Formula One motor racing champion (6,5)

12. Another name for the tomato (4,5)

15. Brisk lively movement in music, developed from the minuet (7)

17. Type of Falkland Islands penguin (6)

19. Nikola, electrical engineer after whom the derived SI unit of magnetic flux density is named (5)

21. --- Lanka, Asian republic whose capital is Colombo (3)