General Knowledge Crossword

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1. A knife with the blade pivoted to fold into a recess in the handle (9)

8. Robert E., commanderin-chief of the Confederate armies in the American Civil War (3)

9. Hawkeye’s name in stories by James Fenimore Cooper (5,6)

11. Small cucumber used for pickling (7)

12. ‘Barnaby ---’, novel by Charles Dickens (5)

13. Clara’s husband in Dickens’s David Copperfield (6)

15. State capital of Kansas (6)

17. Capital of Tunisia (5)

18. Rhododendron of E. North America (7)

20. Severiano, 1983 US Masters golf champion (11)

22. Umberto, author of Foucault’s Pendulum (3)

23. ‘--- de Paris’, novel by Victor Hugo (5,4)

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2. Miss Gardner, US actress born Lucy Johnson (3)

3. Small light boat used by Eskimos (5)

4. Large tropical American lizard with a greyish-green body (6)

5. Grass of S. Europe and N. Africa that yields a fibre used to make rope (7)

6. Andrew, composer of the musical Cats (5,6)

7. The --- bird is a large African bird of prey which feeds chiefly on snakes (9)

10. 1889 novel by R.L. Stevenson (3,5,3)

11. ‘The ---’, 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley (2-7)

14. Protein hormone secreted in the pancreas (7)

16. ‘Murder on the --Express’, novel by Agatha Christie (6)

19. Erik, French composer of Trois Morceaux en forme de poire (5)

21. The derived SI unit of electric resistance (3)