General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. --- Bay, stretch of water in Canada which houses the Belcher Islands (6) 4. Metallic element whose symbol is Cu (6)

9. 1903 novel by Jack

London (4,2,3,4)

10. Dried leaf of the Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, used as flavouring in soups (3,4)

11. Capital of Ghana (5) 12. Old Testament queen who visited Solomon (5)

14. Tropical marine mollusc of the genus Strombus (5)

18. Greek poet to whom the Iliad is attributed (5)

19. Stretch of water between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (4,3) 21. German aircraft manufacturer of the Me-262 war plane (13)

22. Upper chamber of the legislature of Australia (6) 23. Handsome youth loved by Aphrodite in Greek mythology (6)

DOWN

1. Mother of Hector

and Paris (6)

2. 1984 Olympic decathlon champion (5,8) 3. Colourless gas used

in bleaching (5) 5. Mediterranean variety of wild marjoram whose dried leaves are used to season food (7)

6. ‘---: The Return to Narnia’, novel by C.S. Lewis (6,7) 7. Don, American jazz saxophonist/ composer who died in 1964 (6)

8. In music, the set of five parallel lines upon which music is written (5)

13. Elizabeth, English poet who married Robert Browning (7) 15. ‘The ---’, 1844 Christmas book by Charles Dickens (6) 16. Tropical American tree whose light wood is used for making rafts (5)

17. Carnivorous insect with large eyes whose first pair of legs are raised as if in prayer (6)

20. Small insect which feeds by sucking the juices from plants (5)