General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. English poet whose works include the masque Comus (4,6)

7. Madagascan primate (5)

8. Lee, 1974 US PGA golf champion (7)

10. The middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit (8)

11. ‘Kiss Me, ---’, musical comedy with lyrics by Cole Porter (4)

13. Gamal Abdel, president of Egypt 1956-70 (6)

15. Imaginary belt extending 8 degreees either side of the ecliptic (6)

17. Seaport and commercial capital of Yemen (4)

18. 15th-century Florentine painter who died in 1428 (8)

21. Language spoken as a vernacular by Jewish emigrants (7)

22. 1982 film musical starring Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks (5)

23. 1962 world Formula One motor racing champion (6,4)

DOWN

1. Henry, author of The Aspern Papers (5)

2. William, astronomer who discovered Uranus (8)

3. Victor, actor who starred in the 1950 film Samson and Delilah (6)

4. Plant which is a national emblem of Wales (4)

5. The Japanese art or process of paper folding (7) 6 and 19. Tubular passage through which food is passed and digested (10,5)

9. Lake and tourist attraction in the Florida Everglades (10)

12. Sacred river of India which rises in the Western Ghats (8)

14. Sir Stephen, poet and critic who died in 1995 (7)

16. Unit of length equal to six feet used to measure depths of water (6)

19. See 6.

20. ‘Death ---’, 1974 Charles Bronson film (4)