GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Comedy by Ben Jonson (3,9)

7. Indian stringed musical

instrument (5)

8. In Greek mythology, a nymph dwelling in a lake, river, spring or fountain (5)

9. South American plant of the genus Oxalis cultivated for its edible tubers (3)

10. Italian Renaissance painter born

Antonio Allegri (9)

11. -- Bay is a long inlet of sea on the Atlantic coast in Kerry, Republic of Ireland (6)

12. ‘-- Monkey’, novel by P.L.

Travers (6)

15. The -- Islands are a group in the S.W. Pacific Ocean in the Bismarck Archipelago (9)

17. Long narrow inlet of the sea coast found especially on the coasts of S.W. Ireland and N.W. Spain (3)

18. ‘The -- Man’, novel by Graham

Greene (5)

19. Max, German painter who developed the technique of collage (5)

21. Book of the Old Testament

ascribed to Jeremiah (12)

DOWN

1. 1931 novel by Pearl Buck (3,4,5)

2. Biblical character whose wife was changed into a pillar of salt (3)

3. Capital of Zimbabwe (6)

4. Capital city of Nuevo Leon province, Mexico (9)

5. Singer/actor formerly with pop group The Police (5)

6. Imprisoned sea-captain in The Count of Monte-Cristo (6,6)

7. European country whose capital is Madrid (5)

10. Samuel Taylor, author of the poem Kubla Khan (9)

13. Wading bird similar to the heron (5)

14. ‘The --’, 1994 film based on a John Grisham novel (6)

16. Miss Shearer, ballerina and actress who appeared in the film The Red Shoes (5)

20. The ledge or ridge at the upper end of the fingerboard of a violin or cello (3)