General Knowledge Crossword

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1. Dante Gabriel, 19th century poet and painter (8)

5. Animal representing the zodiac sign Cancer (4)

9. Active volcano in Sicily (4)

10. State of the US whose capital is Lincoln (8)

11. Ms. Hedren, actress who starred in The Birds (5)

12. James, Ostendborn navigator and Antarctic explorer who died in 1834 (7)

13. 18th century English Methodist preacher who wrote the hymn Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (7,6)

18. European shrub whose grey-green leaves are used in cookery (8)

19. River which flows through Florence (4)

20. African republic whose capital is Bujumbura (7)

21. Island of the Philippines whose capital is Quezon City (5)

22. Russian river which flows to the Caspian Sea at Atyrau (4)

23. Large hard grains of wheat used for puddings and soups (8)

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2. Fast-running flightless African bird (7)

3. ‘The ---’, novel which forms the second part of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy (7)

4. 1967 novel by Alan Garner (3,3,7)

6. Bertrand, British philosopher whose books include Principles of Mathematics (7)

7. Omar, general who in 1944 led the US invading armies through France and Germany (7)

8. ‘The ---’, 1986 novel by Iain Banks (6)

13. Large deer of Arctic regions of North America (7)

14. European republic whose capital is Vienna (7)

15. Greg, cyclist who won the 1986 Tour de France (6)

16. ‘The ---’, 1896 play by Anton Chekhov (7)

17. Variety of wheat having pale red kernels cultivated as grain for horses (7)