General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1 & 9A Breed of fowl with a dark red plumage (5,6,3) 9. See 1 Across

10. Olympic event won by Bob Seagren in 1968 (4,5)

11. The Greek and Roman god of marriage (5)

13. Arctic toothed whale with a black-spotted whitish skin (7)

14. High plateau in the Andes between the tree line and the permanent snow line (6)

16. Island in New York linked with Brooklyn by VerrazanoNarrows Bridge (6) 18. Mythical youth who drowned while swimming to meet Hero (7)

19 & 7D ‘The ---’, three volume novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (5,11) 20. Johann, German inventor of printing by movable type (9) 21. Throaty call of a

dove or pigeon (3) 22. Piece of armour covering the chest (11)

DOWN

2. 1963 film for which Patricia Neal won a Best Actress

Oscar (3)

3. Chevalier Auguste, amateur detective in Poe’s The

Murders in the Rue Morgue (5)

4. ‘The ---’, 1979 novel by Peter Benchley (6)

5. Young hare, especially one under a year old (7) 6. Swiss lake at the foot of the Jura Mountains (9)

7. See 19 Across 8. Former name of Katowice, Poland, from 1953-6 (11)

12. Actress whose film roles included Brigid O’Shaughnessy in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon (4,5)

15. Singer/actress who starred as Evita on screen (7)

17. ‘Effi ---’, 1895 novel by Theodor Fontane (6)

19. Nikolai, author of

Dead Souls (5)

21. Domesticated feline

mammal (3)

1. Food obtainable in bars (9) 2. To bring in an industrious worker is of considerable significance (9)

4. In the court I erected a row of

seats (4)

5 & 21A Useful for surveying what

air passengers eat from! (5,5) 6. Charge the prisoner is held to (6) 7. Man with prospects? (4)

9. Trees put in a different place (5) 11. Kitchen utensil is fixed up the

night before (5)

12. Got better – take out insurance

in a rush! (9)

13. Allude to the conclusion by a

number of plebiscites (9) 17. Correspond with a friend after

tea (5)

19. Festival days are set in new

arrangement (6)

22. More than one wire acts as a

conductor! (5)

23. Fine material needed for a

stretch of grass (4)

24. A common complaint, we hear,

for the smoker! (4) 1. Confectionery (9) 2. Valuable (9)

4. Rank (4)

5. Smoothing tool (5) 6. Kidnapper’s demand (6) 7. Prophet (4)

9. Clear (5)

11. Strainer (5)

12. Recouped (9)

13. Votes (9)

17. Agree (5)

19. Christian festival (6)

22. Guides (5)

23. Grassed area (4)

24. Chimney pipe (4)