General Knowledge Crossword

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6. Percussion orchestra of Java and Bali (7) 7. ‘The ---’, 1963 play

by Harold Pinter (5) 9. Large nonvenomous snake which kills its prey by constriction (3) 10. Brown flour intermediate between wholemeal and white flour (9) 12. ‘The ---’, 1858 novel by R.M. Ballantyne (5,6) 15. 1976 Alan Parker film with Jodie Foster (5,6) 17. The Chinese language spoken in Hong Kong (9) 19. Capital of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan (3) 21. Jefferson, American Civil War leader who died in 1889 (5) 22. Painting technique using opaque watercolours and glue (7)

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1. John, British prime

minister 1990-97 (5) 2. Annual climbing plant, Pisum sativum (3) 3. City of Southwest England noted for Georgian architecture and Roman remains (4) 4. Large greenish venomous snake of southern Africa (9) 5 & 16 & 20D. ‘The ---’, 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (7,2,3,3) 8. Biblical character thrown into the lions’ den (6) 11. Genus of shrubs with showy yellow bell-shaped flowers (9) 13. Small rosaceous tree, Prunus amygdalus, whose green fruit contains an edible nutlike seed (6) 14. Orange-flavoured liqueur originally made in the West Indies (7) 16. See 5 Down 18. Small sour blueblack fruit of the blackthorn (4) 20. See 5 Down