General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Woodrow, 28th US President (6) 4. Willie, snooker player who won the 1985 Mercantile Credit Classic (6) 9. Actor who played Urquhart in the House of Cards trilogy (3,10) 10. 12th-century citadel in Moscow (7) 11. Albert, French author of The Plague (5) 12. Of certain elements, chemically unreactive (5) 14. Large wading bird of he family Ciconiidae (5) 18. Mediterranean shrub, Capparis spinosa, with edible flower buds (5) 19. Frank, American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls (7) 21. Male character in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (4,9) 22. A member of a Central American Indian people who ruled much of Mexico in the 10th12th centuries (6) 23. Diamond-shaped pattern often used for socks (6)

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1. ‘--- Galore’, novel by Compton Mackenzie (6) 2. Noncommissioned officer of the lowest rank in the British Army (5,8) 3. Bay window supported by one or more brackets (5) 5. Variety of French bean with lightcoloured edible seeds (7) 6. Ira Levin novel filmed in 1968 with Mia Farrow (9,4) 7. Forename of the novelist Hemingway (6) 8. Republic of ---, Asian republic occupying the island of Taiwan (5) 13. Cattle and timber town in Wyoming (7) 15. Feline mammal with a dark-spotted buffbrown coat (6) 16. Jim, winner of the Formula 1 British Grand Prix 1962-65 (5) 17. 1987 Grand slam winners in the Five Nations rugby union championship (6) 20. In Greek mythology, the upper regions of the atmosphere (5)