Sunderland Echo

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

6. Ralph Waldo, U.S.

essayist and poet who

died in 1882 (7)

7. Francis, Dublin-born

painter who died in

9. Ernie, 1994 U.S. Open

golf champion (3)

10. Unfinished novel by

Franz Kafka (3,6)

12. 1929 operetta by Noel

Coward (6,5)

15. American athlete who

won the 1968 Olympic

gold (4,7)

17. Highest peak in the

Andes (9)

19. Bird of the crow family

such as the Eurasian

Garrulus glandarius (3)

21. Wading bird with a

long neck, slim body

and grey or white

plumage (5)

22. Opera by

Beethoven (7)

DOWN

1 & 11 19c American poet whose published collection­s include Bolts of Melody (5,9) 2. Mr. Garfunkel, former singing partner of

Paul Simon (3) 3. Robert, German Nobel prize-winning scientist who isolated the cholera bacillus (4) 4. Large flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea (9)

5. --- Dam, former name, 1933-47, of Hoover Dam, U.S.A. (7) 8. Beetle regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine (6)

11. See 1.

13. Apostle who refused to believe in Christ’s resurrecti­on until he had seen his wounds (6)

14. “--- Martin”, novel by

William Golding (7)

16 & 20 Highest wicket taker in Test cricket (5,3)

18. Leon, author of

Exodus (4)

20. See 16.

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