General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Garden near the foot of the Mount of Olives (10)

7. Sir Henry, engineer who founded a company with Charles Stewart Rolls (5)

8. The --- shark, Cetorhinus maximus, is a large plankton-feeding creature (7)

10. Small oily member of the herring family (8)

11. Capital of

Azerbaijan (4)

13. Juan, 1957 world motor racing champion (6)

15. 1894 novel by George Du Maurier (6)

17. Inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm (4) 18. Cultivated variety of cabbage, Brassica oleracea italica (8) 21. 1976 horror film starring Gregory Peck (3,4)

22. Tree of the genus

Fagus (5)

23. Author of Black

Beauty (4,6)

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1 & 16D 1861 satirical novel by Thomas Love Peacock (5,6) 2. 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino (3,5) 3. Jean, actress whose films include Paint Your Wagon (6) 4. Plant such as the North American Mimulus moschatus (4)

5. V.S., author of the 1971 novel In a Free State (7)

6. Tree, Citrus paradisi, having large, round, edible fruit (10) 9. 1934 novel by Dorothy L.

Sayers (5,5)

12. ‘The ---’, 1953 play

by Arthur Miller (8) 14. A hard-wearing cotton fabric named after its place of origin in China (7) 16. See 1 Down

19. Ryan, Best Actor Oscar nominee for Love Story (5)

20. 1816 novel by Jane

Austen (4)