General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Scottish botanist who discovered many trees in North America including the — fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii (5,7)

7. See 9 Across

8. Brightest star in the constellation Orion (5)

9 & 7A City in Nevada noted for its casinos (3,5)

10. Silver-white metallic element used in making steel (9)

11. River in S. Africa rising in N.E. Lesotho (6)

12. Marine gastropod found clinging to rocks (6)

15. Metallic element, symbol: Bk (9)

17. Fourth caliph of Islam, cousin and son-in-law of Mohammed (3)

18. Mammal of Central and South America related to the raccoon (5)

19. Tree of the genus Platanus (5)

21. 1820 novel by Walter Scott (3,9)

DOWN

1. 1967 film documentary of bob Dylan’s spring 1965 tour of Britain (4,4,4)

2. Domesticated canine mammal (3)

3. Duke of Illyria in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (6)

4. Grey, hard, brittle element, symbol: Ge (9)

5. Group of plants which includes the seaweeds and spirogyra (5)

6. Actor whose screen roles include Arthur Seaton in the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (6,6)

7. The Roman goddess of the hearth and its fire (5)

10. Silvery-white metallic element used in flash bulbs, flares and fireworks (9)

13. Mervyn, author of Gormenghast (5)

14. Any of several varieties of eating apple with a rounded oblate shape (6)

16. Hal, silent movie producer who helped foster the career of Laurel and Hardy (5)

20. Mammal of the horse family such as Equus asinus (3)