General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

7. Actors’ trade union in the US founded in 1913 (6)

8 & 10A Author of Cold Comfort Farm (6,7)

10. See 8 Across

11. Morarji, Indian prime minister 1977-79 (5)

12. Leon, author of Exodus (4)

13. Cary, actor whose real name was Archibald Leach (5)

17. The male of any duck (5)

18. Sixth month of the year (4)

22. Textile fibre made from wood pulp or other forms of cellulose (5)

23 & 21D 1988 Woody Allen film with Gene Hackman (7,5)

24. See 4 Down

25. The hindquarter of a side of bacon (6)

DOWN

1. European kingdom whose capital is Brussels (7)

2. County of N.W. England which includes the former county of Westmorland (7)

3. One of The Three Musketeers (5)

4 & 24A ‘The ---’, 1924 musical play by Sigmund Romberg (7,6)

5. Glenn, American actress whose films include Fatal Attraction (5)

6. Process of printing fabric using wax as a blocking agent (5)

9. City in Russia on the delta of the Volga River (9)

14. Either of two Old World woodpeckers, such as Jynx torquilla (7)

15. Marcel, French painter of Nude Descending a Staircase (7)

16. ‘Albert ---’, opera by Benjamin Britten (7)

19. Fruit such as the peach or plum with a stony endocarp (5)

20. ‘Love for ---’, novel by H.E. Bates (5)

21. See 23 Across