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General Knowledge Crossword

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ACROSS

4. Butch, US outlaw originally called Robert LeRoy

Parker (7)

8. French city, capital of Somme department (6)

9. Carl, 18th-century chemist and discoverer of oxygen (7)

10. South American republic whose capital is Brasilia (6)

11. Tracey, English actress/singer whose show won a 1990 Emmy

Award (6)

12. Australian men’s tennis player who did the Grand Slam in 1962 (3,5)

18. Ken, 1971 Australian Open tennis champion (8)

20. Howard, author of Fame is the Spur (6)

21. “Trouble with ---”, novel by John Wyndham (6)

22. --- Street, home of the British prime minister (7)

23. See 3 Down

24. Mountain range between S.E.

Alaska and the S.W. Yukon (2,5)

DOWN

1. German city near the North Sea astride the River Elbe (7)

2. Antonio, Italian composer of The Four Seasons (7) 3 & 23A Indian leader assassinat­ed in 1984 (6,6)

5. Brightest star in the constellat­ion Boötes (8)

6 & 7D 1937 film for which Barbara Stanwyck was a Best Actress Oscar nominee (6,6)

7. See 6 Down

13. American state whose capital is Richmond (8)

14. The negative electrode in an electrolyt­ic cell (7)

15. Charles, French tightrope-walker who crossed the Niagara Falls in 1859 (7)

16. The Brussels

--- is a variety of cabbage (6)

17. Mr. Hampton, bandleader who introduced the vibraphone into jazz (6)

19. 9th-century B.C. Hebrew prophet who opposed the worship of Baal in Israel (6)

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