GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fish of the family Balistidae

with a compressed body (11)

9 Mr. Hughes, poet whose first

wife was Sylvia Plath (3)

10 Household pest with an oval

flattened body (9)

11 Musical instrument associated with Jacqueline du Pré (5)

13 “The ---”, 1952 Bernard

Malamud novel (7)

14 Bernhard, 1993 U.S. Masters

golf champion (6)

16 Johannes, 19c German

composer (6)

18 Herring which has been

salted, cured and smoked (7)

19 Unit of mass equal to

1000 kg (5)

20 In the ancient world, --- Gaul was between the Alps and the Apennines (9)

21 Star sign represented by the

lion (3)

22 Fisherman hero of a Benjamin

Britten opera (5,6)

DOWN

2 Colour of the ball worth one

point in snooker (3)

3 Terrestrial lizard of warm

regions (5)

4 Second epoch of the Tertiary

period (6)

5 E.M., author of A Room with a

View (7)

6 Sea creature with a global

body in a spiny covering (3,6)

7 Small fish with a series of

spines along the back (11)

8 Insoluble substance found in

the blood (11)

12 Another name for the spiny

lobster (9)

15 Miss Getty, Sylvester Stallone’s mother in the film Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot (7)

17 “The --- Game”, 1992 Neil

Jordan film (6)

19 Fountain in Rome (5)

21 Trygve, first secretary-general

of the UN (3)