General Knowledge Crossword

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1. Small bird of the thrush family (11) 9. An --- barometer measures air pressure without the use of fluids (7) 10. See 20. 11. Miss Cavell, British nurse courtmartialled and killed by the Germans in WWI (5) 12. “The ---”, 1926 Buster Keaton film (7) 13. Jeff, England rugby union prop capped 37 times before his retirement in 1993 (6) 15. Isaac, science fiction author of I, Robot (6) 18. Land-locked kingdom surrounded by the republic of South Africa (7) 20 and 10. “The ---”, 1959 novel by William Burroughs (5,5) 22. The colour blue in heraldry (5) 23. City in Tuscany, Italy, after which a type of domestic fowl is named (7) 24. Johnny, 1924 & 1928 Olympic 100m freestyle swimming champion (11)

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2. Tribe of ancient Britons who were led by Queen Boudicca (5) 3. Arm of the Ganges river which is navigable as far as Calcutta (7) 4. Any of various tropical plants which yield a blue dye (6) 5. Greek physician who lived around 130-200 A.D. and codified existing medical knowledge (5) 6. Walter, 1933 world professional billiards champion (7) 7. Wormlike larva of butterflies and moths (11) 8. Evelyn Waugh novel satirising the American funeral industry (3,5,3) 14. “Jude the ---”, novel by Thomas Hardy (7) 16. West African republic whose capital is Dakar (7) 17. Slimy creature in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (6) 19. Oak, aspen and beech, for example (5) 21. Standard monetary unit of Denmark (5)