GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Arm of the North Sea between Denmark and Norway (9)

8. ‘-- on a Tower’, novel by Thomas Hardy (3)

9. 1980 novel by Stephen King (11)

11. The -- palm is planted throughout the tropics for its fruit (7)

12. Charles, actor whose films include The Golden Child and Last Action Hero (5)

13. The -- Elysées is a major boulevard in Paris (6)

15. The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas (6)

17. Betulaceous shrub or tree of the genus Alnus (5)

18. In the game of real tennis, the sloping buttress on one side of the receiver’s end of the court (7)

20. 1924 Olympic men’s 400m champion (4,7)

22. The part of a cereal plant that contains the seeds, grains or kernels (3)

23. See 4 Dn.

DOWN

2. Type of carp that can be up to a

metre long (3)

3. Industrial city in North RhineWestphalia, Germany (5)

4 and 23 Ac. 1940 film, first in a series starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (4,2,9)

5. Green long-horned grasshopper

of North America (7)

6. ‘Dr. --’, 1964 film by Stanley

Kubrick (11)

7. ‘The --’, 1963 novel by John Fowles (9) 10. Actor whose films include Pretty Woman and Breathless (7,4) 11. Crested Australian parrot with a greyish-brown and yellow plumage (9) 14. Anthony, actor who played Norman Bates in the film Psycho (7) 16. Joseph, Soviet leader who died in 1953 (6) 19. In Greek mythology, a princess of Colchis who assisted Jason in obtaining the Golden Fleece (5) 21. Prehistoric bronze trumpet, specimens of which have been found in Danish peat bogs (3)