General Knowledge Crossword

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7. Inland sea linked with the Atlantic by the Strait of Gibraltar (13) 8. U.S.S.R. woman gymnast who won the 1976 Olympic floor and vault gold medals (5,3) 9. Biblical character whose sons included Ham and Shem (4) 10. “The ---”, 1992 Robert Altman film with Tim Robbins (6) 12. “--- Mr. Enderby”, 1963 novel by Anthony Burgess (6) 14. Adolphe, actor who played Walter Burns in the 1931 film The Front Page (6) 16. Plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles (6) 18. In certain card games, a set of cards which are laid down in order to score points (4) 20. Thomas, English furniture maker who died in 1806 (8) 22. A thick steak cut from the fillet of beef (13)

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1. Signal given to awaken soldiers or sailors in the morning (8) 2. Peter, former England Test cricketer appointed to the International Panel of umpires in 1996 (6) 3. Large tree of the East Indies which yields a hard resinous wood (4) 4. 1984 Joe Dante film featuring creatures that must not be fed after midnight (8) 5. Another name for the pineapple (6) 6. Emile Zola novel of 1880 (4) 11. Henri, French painter known as Le Douanier (8) 13. River in S.W. France which joins the Garonne to form the Gironde estuary (8) 15. Miss Krantz, author of I’ll Take Manhattan (6) 17. In Greek mythology, the Muse of astronomy (6) 19. In communications, code word for the letter e (4) 21. River which flows through Germany to the North Sea at Hamburg (4)