General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. 1995 US Masters

golf champion (3,8) 9. Aristide, French sculptor whose nudes include 1938’s L’Air (7)

10. Odilon, French symbolist painter whose works include Ophelia among the Flowers (5)

11. F.H., England Test cricketer who took 7-27 against Australia in Melbourne in 19545 (5)

12. Seaside resort on

Rhode Island (7) 13. Largest island in the

Mediterranean (6) 15. Alphonse, 19th century French author of Lettres de mon moulin (6) 18. Ancient capital of

Assyria (7)

20. 1950 novel by Edna

Ferber (5)

22. Sean, actor who played ‘Sam’ Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (5)

23. 1975 film starring,

Warren Beatty (7) 24. Director of the 1990 film The Field which starred Richard Harris (3,8)

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2 & 14D Bulgaria-born writer who won the 1981 Nobel prize for literature (5,7) 3. Officer of land or air forces junior to a brigadier (7)

4. Britt, actress whose films include Get Carter and The Wicker Man (6) 5. Small mouse-like mammal such as the common ---, Sorex araneus (5) 6. 1982 film starring Klaus Kinski as scientist Dr. Daniel (7)

7 & 8D National museum in Washington, D.C. (11,11)

8. See 7 Down

14. See 2 Down

16. The standard monetary unit of Afghanistan (7) 17. Lover of Pyramus in

Greek legend (6) 19. The Roman goddess

of love (5)

21. First letter in the

Greek alphabet (5)