General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Basic pattern of the human fingerprint formed by curved ridges (4)

3. Strait between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara (8)

8. Lake in Switzerland formed by a widening of the river Aare (4)

9. Twelfth month of the year (8)

11. Capital of Orange Free State, South Africa (12)

13. Edwin, US astronomer noted for his investigations of nebulae (6)

14. Husband of Titania in medieval folklore (6)

17. 1969 Sam Peckinpah film with William Holden (3,4,5)

20. William, author of the Restoration comedy The Double Dealer (8)

21. Sir Thomas, lord chancellor to Henry VIII of England (4)

22. Dark glassy volcanic rock formed by a rapid solidification of lava (8)

23. In Greek mythology, the goddess of youth and spring (4)

DOWN

1. A German motorway (8)

2. The derived SI unit of electric charge (7)

4. Feline mammal, Felis pardalis, with a dark-spotted coat (6)

5. 1978 Louis Malle film with Brooke Shields (6,4)

6. In Judaism, the minister of a synagogue (5)

7. Channel Island ruled by a hereditary seigneur or dame (4)

10. 1984 novel by David Lodge (5,5)

12. 1860 novel by Ivan Turgenev (2,3,3)

15. Arthur, author of Swallows and Amazons (7)

16. Character in Twelfth Night who falls in love with Viola (6)

18. Tom, actor who starred as Jim Lovell in the film Apollo 13 (5)

19. In Greek mythology, a nymph spurned by Narcissus (4)