General Knowledge Crossword

6. Pale yellow wholemilk cheese of Switzerland (7) 7. Bette, Best Actress Oscar-winner for 1938’s Jezebel (5) 9. Rex, creator of detective Nero

Wolfe (5)

10. Large feline mammal of Africa and S.W. Asia (7)

12. ‘The ---’, 1986 novel by Harold Robbins (11)

14 & 2D 1969 Graham Greene novel featuring Henry Pulling (7,4,2,4)

18. Leslie, actor who played Frank Drebin in The Naked

Gun (7)

19. Julian, English guitarist and lutenist born in 1933 (5)

21. Tree or shrub of the genus Alnus whose wood is used for bridges (5)

22. Card game for two to six players who amass points by declaring sets of cards (7) 1 & 17D 1983 women’s marathon world champion (5,5)

2. See 14 Across 3. Stephen, Author of

The Liar (3)

4. Edith, English nurse executed by the Germans in World War I (6)

5. Slender tower of a mosque with a balcony (7)

8. 1957 novel by William

Faulkner (3,4)

11. Water mass between

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (4,3)

13. Louis, inventor of a system of raised writing for the blind (7)

15. The --- ant is a solitary digger wasp of the family Mutillidae (6)

16. ‘--- of the Apes’, novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs (6)

17. See 1 Down

20. Fifth month of the

year (3) 1 2 3 4