General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Jeff, actor who played Ike Clanton in the 1994 film

Wyatt Earp (5)

4. Sam, actorplaywright who wrote the 1972 drama The Tooth of Crime (7)

8 & 12Dn. British conductor who founded the Academy of St. Martin-in-theFields (7,8)

9. The principal food of

whalebone whales (5) 10. 1994 Michael

Apted film starring Jodie Foster (4)

11. --- III, pope who instituted the Fourth Crusade (8)

13. County town of County Kildare, Republic of

Ireland (4)

14. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1702-14 (4)

16. Organ that secretes

insulin (8)

17. Anita, author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (4)

20. Loch --- in Scotland houses an island on which Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned (5) 21. Bitter alkaloid extracted from cinchona bark (7)

22. Province of Canada whose capital is Toronto (7)

23. Industrial city and port in Belgium formerly famous for its cloth industry (5)

DOWN

1. 1963 film starring Elvis Presley and Ursula

Andress (3,2,8) 2. Vaclav, president of Czechoslovakia 1989-92 (5)

3. U.S. university at New Haven, Connecticut (4) 4. Natural earth containing ferric oxide used as a pigment (6)

5. Dog of the spitz type with a thick grey coat (8) 6. Town in central Texas associated with the oil refining industry (7) 7. Falstaff’s tavern mistress in Shakespeare’s play Henry IV Pt. 2 (4,9) 12. See 8 Across

13. Territory of Canada

created in 1999 (7) 15. Scottish general whose ghost haunts Macbeth in Shakespeare’s tragedy (6)

18. Evergreen tree of the Mediterranean having edible shiny fruits (5)

19. Gadoid food fish such as Molva molva (4)