GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Set of sheets of paper, a twentieth of a ream (5) 8 Silvery-white metallic element used chiefly as a source of nuclear energy (7)

9 Desert in Egypt between the Nile, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez (7)

10 William Goldman novel filmed in 1978 with Anthony Hopkins (5)

12 Peasant dance form Italy in fast six-eight time (10)

15 & 17 Down 1963 Alistair Maclean novel set in the

Arctic (3,7,5)

18 Plant with large spikes of brightly coloured flowers (5) 19 Glass reflector placed at intervals along roads to indicate traffic lanes at night (7)

21 “--- for ---”, 1604 Shakespeare play (7)

22 Capital of France (5)

DOWN

1&4 West African republic whose capital is Malabo (10,6) 2 In Greek mythology, any of a family of gods who were sons of Uranus and Gaea (5)

3 Miss Moore, actress once married to Bruce Willis (4)

4 See 1 Down

5 Any of several small fan palms of the southeastern U.S. (8) 6 Hermione, English actress whose films include the 1958 musical Gigi (7)

11 Green or yellow liqueur made from herbs and flowers (10) 13 Radioactive element used as an alpha-particle source whose symbol is Ac (8)

14 Simon, creation of Leslie Charteris called ‘the Saint’ (7) 16 Sophie, American vaudeville performer billed as the ‘last of the red-hot Mamas’ (6)

17 See 15 Across

20 African antelope, Damaliscus korrigum, with angular curved horns (4)