GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Mr. Eban, Israeli foreign minister 1966-74 born in
Cape Town (4)
8. Nymphalid butterfly of Europe and Asia having black wings with red and white markings (3,7)
9. American entertainer, star of the first talking picture The Jazz
Singer (2,6)
10. Playing card with three spots (4)
12. Randolph, world middleweight boxing champion in summer 1951 (6)
14. Dioxide of silicon used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics (6)
15. 1894 novel by George Du Maurier featuring the character
Svengali (6)
17. Central American republic between Costa Rica and Colombia (6)
18. Sandy, 1988 US Masters golf champion (4)
19. Parallelogram having adjacent sides of unequal length (8)
21. 1968 US Open golf champion (3,7)
22. Eliot, character played by Kevin Costner in the 1987 film The Untouchables (4)
DOWN
2. American actor/ comedian who played Dr. Venkman in the 1984 film Ghostbusters (4,6)
3. Ship in which Jason sought the Golden Fleece (4)
4. Thomas Alva, American inventor of an incandescent light bulb (6)
5. In Greek mythology, a handsome youth killed by a wild boar (6)
6. Sport in which skiers with rifles shoot at four targets along a cross-country course (8)
7. Cassius, 1960
Olympic light heavyweight boxing champion (4)
11. US poet whose verse is characterised by eccentric punctuation (1,1,8)
13. Small tropical fan palm of the southeastern US (8)
16. In cricket, a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or beyond the bat (6)
17. Port on the Illinois River, birthplace of comedian Richard Pryor (6)
18. --- of the valley, small plant of Eurasia and North America with spikes of white bellshaped flowers (4)
20. David, Australian
Test cricketer born in Tasmania (4)