General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. NASA space probes sent to Mars in 1975 (6) 4. West Indian evergreen tree with large green fruit (6) 9. Californian city founded by Mormons in 1852 (3,10) 10. Positively charged region at the centre of an atom (7) 11. John, English poet whose works include The Rural Muse (5) 12. Giuseppe, composer of the opera Rigoletto (5) 14. Kurt, composer of the opera Street Scene (5) 18. Former French province whose capital was Angers (5) 19. The total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another (7) 21. Rival of Michael Henchard in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (6,7) 22. Ancient Greek city in the Peloponnese (6) 23. Tree of tropical India whose aerial roots grow down into the soil (6)

DOWN

1. In Hinduism, god who is the Pervader or Sustainer (6) 2. Third highest mountain in the world (13) 3. A daughter of one’s sister or brother (5) 5. Ear-shaped tip of the atrium of the heart (7) 6. 1977 television play by Mike Leigh (8,5) 7. Long-legged shore bird of the genus Recurvirostra (6) 8. In existentialism, the general human anxiety of having free will (5) 13. Horse on which Princess Anne became 1971 European three-day event champion (7) 15. The --- fly is a mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera (6) 16. Town in Holland associated with a type of tin-glazed earthenware (5) 17. The --- Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey (6) 20. Miss Luft, actress daughter of Judy Garland (5)