General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Plant, the national emblem of

Ireland (8)

5. Domed recess at the east end of a

church (4)

9. Unit of length based on the width of an

expanded hand (4)

10. Apparatus used for planing over water (5-3)

11. Gertrude, American writer whose works include Three

Lives (5)

12. --- of Aquitaine, Queen consort of Louis VII of France (7)

13. Russian ballerina who became ballet mistress at the Kirov in 1962 (6,7)

18. Food fish called the long-fin tunny (8)

19. 1976 novel by Tom Sharpe (4)

20. Former kingdom of Spain divided in 1833 into three

provinces (7)

21. 1967 novel by Leon Uris (5)

22. Tim, lyricist who worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber on Jesus Christ Superstar (4)

23. Order of mammals which includes the anteaters, sloths

and armadillos (8)

DOWN

2. Novel by Charles Kingsley set in 5c Alexandria (7)

3. Henry, composer of film scores including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (7)

4. Thick steak cut from the fillet of beef (13)

6. Servant to Posthumus in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (7)

7. Independent state of N.E. Africa whose capital is Asmara (7)

8. Miss Bonham

Carter, actress who played Lucy Honeychurch in the film A Room With a View (6)

13. Stewart, actor whose real name was James

Stewart (7)

14. Nicolas, French chemist who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt (7)

15. In classical mythology, the drink of the gods (6)

16. Seaside resort in Rhode Island on Narragansett

Bay (7)

17. ‘Prince ---’, 1954 film starring Robert Wagner and James Mason (7)