General Knowledge Crossword

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1. Port in S.E. Spain south-west of Benidorm (8)

5. Eldest of Noah’s three sons (4)

9. Mr. Zatopek, 1952 Olympic marathon winner (4)

10. “The —”, 1969 novel by Kingsley Amis (5,3)

11. Capital of France (5)

12. Texas university town N.E. of San Angelo (7)

13. American state whose capital is Boston (13)

18. Former French gold coin worth 20 francs (8)

19. Adjective applied to undercooked beef (4)

20. Game involving hitting wooden balls with mallets (7)

21. Mr. Walsh, director of the 1949 film White Heat (5)

22. In Norse mythology, the god of thunder (4)

23. Flying creature of the suborder Megachiroptera (5,3)

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2. Fast, erotic Brazilian dance (7)

3. Scale of temperature also called the centigrade scale (7)

4. 1927 novel by Henry Williamson (5,3,5)

6. Mr. Humbert, lover of Lolita in Nabokov’s novel (7)

7. Daphne, character in The Jewel in the Crown (7)

8. Frederick, British composer who wrote Paris, the Song of a Great City (6)

13. Short-haired tailless variety of domesticated animal (4,3)

14. 1972 venue of the Winter Olympics (7)

15. Genus of plants which includes garlic and leek (6)

16. Amelia, first woman to fly the Atlantic (7)

17. Island in the West Indies off Haiti: haunt of pirates in the 17th century (7)