General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Temperate shrub of the genus Lonicera (11)

9. Nickname of former US president Dwight D. Eisenhower (3)

10. See 3 Down

11. Kenneth, US solicitor general 1989-93 (5)

13. ‘The ---’, 1827 novel by James Fenimore Cooper (7)

14. In skiing, a straight high-speed downhill run (6)

16 & 19D 1946 twoact opera by Kurt Weill (6,5)

18. Period in Asia, Egypt and Europe that followed the Bronze Age (4,3)

19. Grasslike plant of the genus Carex having triangular stems (5)

20. 1967 Peter Watkins film starring Paul Jones and Jean Shrimpton (9)

21. The female of a rabbit or hare (3)

22. Actor whose films include The Matrix (5,6)

DOWN

2. Mr. Olsen, 1975 individual world speedway champion (3)

3 & 10A 1974 film starring Bruce

Lee (5,3,6)

4. Extensive grassy treeless plain of Eurasia (6)

5. Small dried seedless grape of the Mediterranean region (7)

6. Karl, fashion designer born in Hamburg in 1933 (9)

7. US state whose capital is

Jackson (11)

8. 1954 novel by Iris Murdoch (5,3,3)

12. In Greek mythology, goddess of love and beauty (9)

15. Large eared seal such as the Californian

---, Zalophus californianus (3,4)

17. 1979 disaster film starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood (6)

19. See 16 Across

21. River in N. Wales and Cheshire which flows to the Irish

Sea (3)