General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Genus of fish which includes the sea horse (11)

9. The --- deer, Capreolus capreolus, lives in woodlands of Europe and Asia (3)

10. Oliver, author of The Vicar of Wakefield (9)

11. ‘--- in the Sky’, 1943 film musical with Lena Horne (5)

13. Any of several plants such as knotgrass (7)

14. Phoenician princess who had three sons by Zeus (6)

16. Container for burning incense, especially one swung at religious ceremonies (6)

18. ‘--- John’, character played by Elliott Gould in the 1970 film M*A*S*H (7)

19. Sir Toby, character in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (5)

20. Island republic in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Port Louis (9)

21. ‘--- Abner’, comic strip by Al Capp (3)

22. 1996 film by Tim Burton featuring

Tom Jones (4,7)

DOWN

2. Nickname of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (3)

3. Augustus, architect who worked with Charles Barry on the Houses of Parliament in London (5)

4. Maria, operatic soprano born in

New York City (6)

5. River which rises in France before forming part of the border between Germany and Luxembourg (7)

6. ‘--- Soldier’,

1992 film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (9)

7. Surgical incision performed when the upper air passage has been blocked (11)

8. 1989 novel by Stephen King (3,4,4)

12. Predatory marine fish with strong teeth and a protruding lower jaw (9)

15. ‘Mary ---’, children’s book by P.L.

Travers (7)

17. ‘A Portrait of the --As a Young Man’, novel by James Joyce (6)

19. Port in Iraq on the Shatt-al-Arab (5)

21. Standard unit of currency of Albania (3)