GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Large wading bird of tropical E. African swamps (8) 5 Frans, painter of The Laughing Cavalier (4) 9 Mr. Meyer, director of the film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (4) 10 Bathsheba, character in Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd (8) 11 Bowed stringed instrument, alto of the violin family (5) 12 World War I cartoon creation of Bruce Bairnsfather (3,4) 13 1926 story collection by A.A. Milne (6-3-4) 18 Gaseous element that forms 78%, by volume, of air (8) 19 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on poems by T.S. Eliot (4) 20 Cylindrical self-propelled underwater weapon (7) 21 ‘The Vacillations of -- Carew’, novel by Mary Wesley (5) 22 1994 film for which Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscarnomination (4) 23 Marine fish of the genus Hippocampus (3,5)

DOWN

2 Harry, escapologist who died in

1926 (7) 3 Fifth letter in the Greek

alphabet (7) 4 1933 novel by Walter

Greenwood (4,2,3,4) 6 Forename of the navigator Vespucci, after whom the continent of America was named (7) 7 The -- fighter-bomber, US F-117A, was used during the 1991 Gulf War (7) 8 ‘The -’, 1986 novel by Iain Banks

(6) 13 Mr. Churchill, British prime

minister 1940-45 (7) 14 ‘The --’, 1952 novel by Bernard

Malamud (7) 15 Heroine of Shakespeare’s

Cymbeline (6) 16 Woodwind instrument, smallest member of the flute family (7) 17 Cephalopod mollusc with eight

long suckered tentacles (7)