General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Michael, member of the “Monty Python” comedy team (5)

4. Feline mammal also called the desert lynx (7)

8. Antonin, Czech president 1957-68 (7)

9. Robert, cartoonist who created Fritz the Cat (5)

10. Largest and most southerly county of the Republic of Ireland (4)

11. The — flower of North America has brilliant scarlet, pink or white flowers (8)

13. The reproductive body of conifers and related plants (4)

14. The US president’s office in the White House is called the — Office (4)

16. Religious hypocrite in a 1664 comedy by Molière (8)

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

20. Circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon (5)

21. One of two or more atoms with the same atomic number (7)

22. River on the border between W. New York State and Ontario (7)

23. The Battle of the — in 1690 completed the overthrow of the Stuart cause in Ireland (5)

DOWN

1. Lake — is a shallow lagoon in Louisiana linked with the gulf of Mexico (13)

2. Rod, 1969 Wimbledon men’s singles tennis champion (5)

3. International organisation established by the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 (4)

4. Tropical American crocodilian similar to the alligator (6)

5. Bird from which domestic pigeons are descended (4,4)

6. Nickname of the Channel Tunnel between France and England (7)

7. 1864 operetta by Offenbach (2,5,6)

12. Island in the West Indies in the Leeward Islands (8)

13. Brazilian dance similar to the samba (7)

15. Continent whose chief rivers include the Niger and Nile (6)

18. Tree of the genus Diospyros with dark hard wood (5)

19. Nontechnical name for the uterus (4)