General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

3. 1947 Carol Reed film set in Northern Ireland (3,3,3) 8. Edward, 19thcentury English humorist (4)

9. Small alpine

flowering plant (9) 10. Warm ocean surge of the Peru Current whose name means ‘the child’ (2,4)

11. See 22 Down

14. ‘In the House of

---’, 1970 novel by Rumer Godden (5) 15. River in central Europe which flows to the North Sea at Hamburg (4)

16. Claude, Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for Mr. Skeffington (5) 18. See 24 Down

20. Miss ---, governess in The Importance of Being Earnest (5)

21. Colour whose name derives from the French word for mole (5)

24. John, author of the

book G (6)

25. Katherine, New Zealand author of In a German Pension (9)

26. Desert in E. Asia (4) 27. British women’s middleweight judo silver medallist at the 2000

Olympics (4,5)

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1. Claes, Swedishborn sculptor whose works include Dual Hamburger (9)

2. Mr. Gobbo, clown in The Merchant of Venice (9)

4. In classical mythology, a princess of Tyre (4) 5. Nellie, Australian soprano who died in 1931 (5)

6. Joseph Nicéphore, French chemist and photographic pioneer (6)

7. Most northerly of the

Shetland Islands (4) 9. Kornelia, 1976 Olympic women’s 100m and 200m freestyle champion (5) 11. A light semitransparent fabric (5)

12. Duke, US jazz musician who died in 1974 (9)

13. Actor whose films include Paint Your Wagon (3,6)

17. 1994 film starring

Keanu Reeves (5)

19. Bob, Australian cricketer who took 16 wickets against England on his Test debut in 1972 (6)

22 & 11A Detective creation of S.S. Van Dine (5,5)

23. House in the novel Gone with the

Wind (4)

24 & 18A 1901 painting

by Picasso (4,4)