General Knowledge Crossword

Across: 4 Belfast; 8 Animal; 9 Pelican; 10 Jaguar; 11 Driver; 12 Sea horse; 18 Sheraton; 20 Gallup; 21 Cullis; 22 Modesty; 23 Jerome; 24 Sistine. Down: 1 San Jose; 2 Gingham; 3 Galago; 5 Everdene; 6 Frigid; 7 Slaney; 13 Rasputin; 14 Stilton; 15 Aniseed; 16 Satori; 17 Albert; 19 Reuter.

ACROSS

4. Capital of Northern Ireland (7) 8. “--- Farm”, satire by George Orwell (6) 9. Original name of Drake’s ship the Golden Hind (7) 10. Car company founded in 1945 by William Lyons (6) 11. Golf club, a No. 1 wood with a large head and deep face for tee shots (6) 12. Marine fish with a bonyplated body of the genus Hippocampus (3,5) 18. Thomas, English furniture maker who died in 1806 (8) 20. George, US statistician who devised a type of opinion poll (6) 21. A gutter in or at the eaves of a roof (6) 22. “--- Blaise”, 1966 film with Dirk Bogarde based on a comic strip (7) 23. Forename and surname of the author of Three Men in a Boat (6) 24. The Pope’s private chapel adjoining St Peter’s, Rome (7)

DOWN

1. Capital of Costa Rica (3,4) 2. Cotton fabric with a checked or striped design (7) 3. Another name for

the bushbaby (6) 5. Bathsheba, character in Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd (8) 6. The cold region inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circle where the sun’s rays are very oblique is called the --- Zone (6) 7. Mary, US distance runner whose maiden name was Decker (6) 13. Siberian monk who wielded great influence over Tsarina Alexandra (8) 14. English cheese named after a village in Huntingdonshire (7) 15. Liquoriceflavoured seeds of the anise plant (7) 16. In Zen Buddhism, the state of sudden intuitive enlightenment (6) 17. Prince Consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (6) 19. Paul, founder of a

news agency (6)