General Knowledge Crossword

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1. --- Field was the site of the battle in which Richard

III of England was killed (8)

5. Abba, Israeli foreign minister 1966-74 (4)

9. River which flows through Pisa (4)

10. North American warbler of the genus Setophaga (8)

11 & 21A 1997 US Masters golf champion (5,5)

12. Pear-shaped fruit of the tree Persea americana (7)

13. Chinese general who was president of Taiwan 195075 (6,3-4)

18. The vermiform --- in some mammals is a wormlike pouch extending from the lower end of the caecum (8)

19. Mort, comedian whose 1976 autobiography was entitled Heartland (4)

20. Louis, French chemist who devised methods of immunisation against anthrax (7)

21. See 11 Across

22. ‘High ---’, film for which Gary Cooper won a Best Actor Oscar (4)

23. ‘The ---’, 1969 novel by Sir Kingsley Amis (5,3)

2. Very long ribbonfish also called king of the herrings (7)

3. Rocket range in South Australia where the first British atomic missile was exploded in 1953 (7)

4. 1946 film starring Olivia de Havilland as twin sisters (3,4,6)

6. Kenneth, actor/ director whose films include 1989’s Henry V (7)

7. 1976 film which won Peter Finch a Best Actor Oscar (7)

8. --- Piceno, cathedral city in central Italy (6)

13. One of a pair of frames strapped to boots for walking on ice or snow (7)

14. Art technique where paint is applied thickly so that brush marks are evident (7)

15. Seaport capital of Loire-Atlantique department, France (6)

16. Siegfried, English poet who died in 1967 (7)

17. Creature also called a spiny anteater (7)