General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

7. Sean, author of the play The Plough and the Stars (6)

8. Max, physicist who formulated the quantum theory (6)

10. Ruth, author of

One Across, Two Down (7)

11 & 18A & 19 Dn.

1969 film musical starring Clint Eastwood (5,4,5)

12. Small constellation containing the star Vega (4)

13. Bovid mammal of the genus Ovis (5) 17 & 25A Brilliant blue variety of the mineral lazurite (5,6)

18. See 11 Across

22. Another name for the white poplar (5)

23. Desiderius, Dutch humanist who was a leading scholar of the Renaissance (7)

24. University city in S. England which houses 40 separate colleges (6)

25. See 17Across

DOWN

1. Frank, West Indies cricket captain knighted in 1964 (7)

2. Primo, boxer nicknamed ‘The Ambling Alp’ (7)

3. Georg, German philosopher whose works include The Phenomenology of the Mind (5)

4. Fast sailing ship, such as the Cutty Sark (7)

5. Gastropod mollusc with a spirally coiled shell (5)

6. Large ray of the family Rajidae (5)

9. Alois, neuropathologist after whom the disease pre-senile dementia is named (9)

14. Group of volcanic islands in the N. Atlantic, west of Morocco (7)

15. Silver-white metallic element, symbol: Ho (7)

16. Former German state consisting of the land of the Teutonic Knights and Brandenburg (7)

19. See 11 Across

20. Town in the Netherlands associated with tin-glazed earthenware (5)

21. Small canoe-like boat used by Inuit (5)