General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Martina, 1982-87 Wimbledon women’s singles tennis champion (11) 9. Mountain in Greece, home of the classical Muses (7) 10. Miss Garbo,

Swedish film actress who died in 1990 (5) 11. Jean, French author of 1947 play The Maids (5)

12. One of a pair of mobile appendages on the heads of insects (7)

13. Character played by Agnes Moorehead in the TV comedy Bewitched (6)

15. The body of Jewish civil and canon law (6)

18. Republic of Africa whose capital is Ajuba (7)

20. Unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound (5)

22. 1979 science fiction film with Sigourney Weaver (5)

23. Luxury British liner which sank near Newfoundland in 1912 (7) Greenish-yellow mineral used as a gemstone in the form of cat’s eye (11) 24.

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2. Lily, UK singer

songwriter (5)

3. A scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake (7) 4. Character played in the film The Wizard of Oz by Jack

Haley (3,3)

5. ‘--- in August’, novel by William Faulkner (5)

6. Asian republic whose capital is Hanoi (7)

7. 1969 novel by

Kingsley Amis (3,5,3) 8. Four-volume Tolstoy novel featuring Bezukhov (3,3,5)

14. Small spotted

European shark (7) 16. One of the 12 disciples chosen by Christ (7)

17. Fidel, Cuban

statesman (6)

19. Mr. Quaid, actor whose films include Midnight Express (5) 21. French city, ancient capital of the duchy of Lorraine (5) 1 2 3 4 5 6