General Knowledge Crossword
1. Valved brass instrument of bass pitch (4)
3. Country whose capital is
Edinburgh (8)
9. The Great ---, ship which laid the first Transatlantic telegraph cable (7) 10. Charles, furniture designer best known for his 1956 ‘Lounge Chair’ (5)
11. ‘The ---’, 1973 novel
by Martin Amis (6,6) 13. A --- disk is a flexible magnetic disk formerly used to store data (6)
15. James, actor who married Barbra Streisand in 1998 (6) 17. Polish-born British ballet dancer who died in 1982 (5,7)
20. Maria, American mezzo-soprano born in 1950 (5)
21. Type of lace named after a town in
Devon (7)
22. Thomas, 17th century poet who wrote Roman Forgeries (8)
23. Unit of speed of one nautical mile per hour (4) 1. 1996 comedy-horror film starring Neve Campbell (3,5)
2 & 12D 1992 film starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone (5,8)
4. Small piece of toast spread with a savoury topping (6) 5. 1960 Billy Wilder film starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine (3,9)
6. The supreme commander of a fleet or navy (7) 7. ‘Heat and ---’, Booker Prizewinning novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (4) 8. England cricketer who took 5 for 95 against West Indies at Leeds in 1988 (5,7)
12. See 2 Down
14. Egg-shaped wind instrument also called a sweet potato (7)
16. ‘The ---’, 1680 play by Thomas Otway (6)
18. Shirley, actress painted gold in the film Goldfinger (5) 19. Small semiaquatic
amphibian (4)