General Knowledge Crossword

1. ‘The ---’, novel which forms the first part of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy (11)

9. City in Florida: site of

Walt Disney World (7) 10. John, character played by Sylvester Stallone in the film First Blood (5)

11. Peter Mark, English physician and lexicographer who in 1852 published a Thesaurus (5)

12. Jackson, US abstract expressionist painter who died in 1956 (7) 13. Silk-producing

arachnid (6)

15 & 17D 1987 film by Richard Donner starring Mel

Gibson (6,6)

18. The Sea of --- is also called Lake Tiberias (7)

20. In golf, a score of two strokes under par for a hole (5) 22 and 23A Cyclist who won the 1998 Tour de France (5,7)

23. See 22 Across

24. The strait which separates Asia from European Turkey (11) 2. German prisonerof-war camp for officers in World War II (5)

3. Mammal of the genus Trichechus which resembles a whale (7)

4. Jeremy, leader of the British Liberal Party 1967-76 (6) 5. Mr. Flynn, actor born

Leslie Thompson (5) 6. Actor and director of the 1998 film The War Zone (3,4) 7. 1994 film starring

Tom Hanks (7,4) 8. Scottish soup made from a fowl boiled with leeks (4-1-6)

14. Ancient region on the Adriatic Sea including parts of present-day Albania, Croatia and Montenegro (7)

16. Rome is known as

the --- City (7)

17. See 15 Across

19. Harold, American film comedian who received an Honorary Academy Award in 1952 (5)

21. W.G., England Test cricket captain known as ‘The Champion’ (5)