General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

6 & 16D Australian athlete, women’s silver winner at 200m in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics (7,5)

7. The Roman goddess of agriculture (5) 9 & 3D & 11D 1964 James Bond story by Ian Fleming (3,4,4,5)

10. Ancient Greek city on the Bosphorus founded about 660 B.C. (9)

12. George Eliot novel featuring Eppie Cass (5,6)

15. Author of the 1939 novel Black Narcissus (5,6)

17. Reverend Harding in an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope (3,6)

19. See 20 Down

21. ‘The —’, 1979 novel by Jackie Collins (5)

22. Language of E. Africa, an official language of Kenya (7)

DOWN

1. Castrated Cock fowl fattened for eating (5)

2. The — agaric is a poisonous fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts (3)

3. See 9 Across

4. US television magnate who founded C.N.N. in 1980 (3,6)

5. In the Roman Catholic Church, a Mass celebrated for the dead (7)

8. The primary source of Jewish religious law (6)

11. See 9 Across

13. Former name, until 1930, of Ankara (6)

14. Genus of shrubs cultivated for their showy drooping flowers named after a 16th-century German botanist (7)

16. See 6 Across

18. Max, world chess champion 1935-7 (4) 20 & 19A 1975 novel by

James Herbert (3,3)