Sunderland Echo

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

7. New York-born violinist who at the age of seven appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (6,7)

8. Form of comic verse named after the middle name of writer Edmund Bentley (8) 9. See 3 Dn.

10. Daryl, actress who played 1987’s

Roxanne (6)

12. Currency of

Indonesia (6)

14. Island in the Aegean, birthplace of lyric poet Sappho (6)

16. Olympic field event won in 1992 by Romas Ubartas (men) and Maritza Marten Garcia (women) (6)

18. “The --- Game”, play

by John Galsworthy (4) 20. Name coined by the Soviet magazine Red Star for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (4,4)

22. President of

Nationalis­t China 1950-75 (6,3-4)

DOWN

1. “The --- Heart”, story by Edgar Allan Poe (4-4)

2. Kevin, Wimbledon men’s singles runnerup in 1985 (6)

3 & 9 Across 1952 Fred Zinnemann film with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly (4-4) 4. “From the ---”, subtitle of Dvorak’s Symphony in E Minor (3,5) 5. Cruciferou­s plant of the Mediterran­ean region with a large white or yellow edible root (6)

6. Joan, Spanish surrealist painter who died in 1983 (4)

11. Gavin, Scottish rugby union player who scored 105 points in four matches in the 1995 World Cup (8)

13. Roald, first man to navigate the Northwest Passage and to reach the

South Pole (8)

15. The art of growing dwarfed ornamental varieties of trees by selective pruning (6) 17. 1984 film starring 10 Across as a mermaid (6)

19. Helmut, German Chancellor since

1982 (4)

21. Large deep-sea fish, Lampris regius, also called the moonfish (4)

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