General Knowledge Crossword

7. Shore bird with a long stout compressed red bill (13)

8. Republic whose capital is

Islambad (8)

9. Asian republic whose administrative capital is

Vientiane (4)

10. ‘Fawlty ---’, television comedy series with John Cleese (6)

12. Red wine, especially one from the Bordeaux district (6) 14. Small nocturnal burrowing rodent of Asia and N. Africa (6) 16. Standard monetary

unit of Portugal (6) 18. Tree, Pyrus communis, with white flowers and edible fruits (4)

20. Millard, 13th president of the US (8)

22. George Eliot novel featuring Gwendolen Harleth (6,7) 1. Eurasian maple tree with two-winged fruits (8)

2. 1909 play by John

Galsworthy (6)

3. Any of several metal bars set across a guitar fingerboard (4) 4. Marine crustacean which lives attached to rocks and ship bottoms (8)

5. In Greek mythology a sea nymph believed to drown sailors navigating the Straits of Messina (6) 6. Nevada town associated with gambling and divorces (4)

11. Highest mountain of

the Isle of Man (8) 13. Fabled South American City, rich in treasure (2,6)

15. Venue of the 1936 summer Olympic games (6)

17. ‘The --- Pursuit’, 1984 play by Simon Gray (6)

19. Mr. McGregor, actor who appeared in the films Shallow Grave and Trainspotting (4) 21. Alliaceous plant with a slender white bulb and broad flat overlapping leaves (4) 1 2 3 4 5