GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mr. Tunney, 1926 world heavyweight boxing champion (4)

3 “An --- War”, 1982 novel by William Boyd (3-5) 8 Spiny-finned food fish of the family Zeidae, such as the John --- (4)

9 Anton, 19c Austrian composer and organist (8)

11 Slightly sour black bread made of coarse rye flour (12) 13 Capital of West Pakistan 1955-70 (6)

14 Opaque impure form of quartz used as a gemstone (6)

17 1985 Larry McMurtry western novel (8,4)

20 Either of the two canine teeth in the upper jaw (8)

21 Spanish river which rises in the Cantabrian Mountains and flows south-east to the Mediterranean (4)

22 Site of the castle famous as the scene of Hamlet (8)

23 The front part of the lower leg (4)

DOWN

1 1971 musical by Stephen Schwartz and John Michael Tebelak mainly based on St. Matthew’s Gospel (8)

2 Kwame, President of Ghana 1960-66 (7)

4 “--- de Bergerac”, 1897 play by Edmond Rostand (6)

5 Old World beetle also called the May beetle (10)

6 Forename of Sgt. Bilko in the comedy The Phil Silvers Show (5)

7 Aldo, former Italian Prime Minister murdered in 1978 (4) 10 Capital of Guyana (10) 12 Capital of Sierra Leone (8) 15 Lord-High-Everything-Else in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado (4-3)

16 “Israel ---”, 1855 novel by Herman Melville (6)

18 Clifford, American dramatist who authored Golden Boy (5) 19 In Greek mythology, the goddess of youth and spring (4)