General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

6. The --- Sea is the part of the Pacific Ocean between Sulawesi, Borneo and Mindanao (7)

7. State of India whose capital is Patna (5)

9. Bowed string instrument, the alto of the violin family (5)

10. Medium-sized square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries (7)

12. Confederation of central Europe whose capital is Berne (11)

14. 1924-26 U.S. PGA golf champion (6,5)

18. Customs union formed by Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands (7)

19. Genus of plants which includes the century plant (5)

21. See 20 Down

22. Edmund, New Zealand explorer who climbed Everest in 1953 (7)

DOWN

1. Independent state of West Africa whose capital is Porto Novo (5)

2. Colour of the ball worth two points in snooker (6)

3 & 17D Film cartoon director who created Daffy Duck (3,5)

4. Roman poet whose works include the Aeneid (6)

5. Bernard, Amsterdam-born conductor born in 1929 (7)

8. Fred, England cricketer who took 307 Test wickets (7)

11. Long flat vertical bone in man to which the collarbone is attached (7)

13. In Arthurian legend, the English town where Arthur’s court was situated (7)

15. In ancient Greece, chief city of Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great (6)

16. Friedrich, collaborator with Marx on The Communist Manifesto (6)

17. See 3 Down 20 & 21A American founder of the People’s Temple who led a mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 (3,5)