GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 & 12 Across Shakespeare play set during the Trojan War (7,3,8)

7 Elephant in children’s stories by Jean de Brunhoff (5)

9 Hard translucent fossil resin derived from extinct coniferous trees (5)

10 Feudal code of the Japanese samurai (7)

12 See 6 Across

14 Actress wife of Charles Bronson who died of cancer in 1990 (4,7)

18 Eli, American inventor of a mechanical cotton gin (7)

19 Rosaceous tree which bears a fruit with red, yellow or green skin (5)

21 John, English dramatist whose works include Live Like Pigs (5)

22 Another name for alfalfa (7)

DOWN

1 Jakob and Wilhelm, German folklorists (5)

2 Bird of the family Columbidae with a heavy body and small head (6)

3 1963 Paul Newman film adapted from a novel by Larry McMurtry (3)

4 Village in Cyprus famous as the site of Aphrodite worship (6)

5 Hero of a 1759 satire by Voltaire (7)

8 Another name for German measles (7)

11 & 15 Down “The ---”, Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring the character Hester Prynne (7,6)

13 Highest part of the back of a horse behind the neck between the shoulders (7)

15 See 11 Down

16 John, Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms (6)

17 John, American astronaut who was first to orbit the Earth (5)

20 Diving bird of the family Alcidae of northern oceans (3)