GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. 1966 Formula One world motor racing champion (4,7)

9. Broad sash tied in a bow at the back worn as part of the Japanese national costume (3)

10. Port in Maryland,

USA., on Chesapeake Bay (9)

11. Robert, Austrian author of unfinished novel The Man

Without Qualities (5) 13. West African republic whose capital is

Abuja (7)

14. Byron, 1939 US Open

golf champion (6)

16. Stirrup-shaped bone in the middle ear of mammals (6)

18 & 21 Across 1984 novel by Anita Brookner set in Switzerland (5,2,3)

19. “La ---”, 1983 novel by

Elmore Leonard (5)

20. Large light triangular

racing sail (9)

21. See 18.

22. French rugby union forward who won 63 caps from

1964-72 (6,5)

DOWN

2. “Bel ---”, novel by Guy

de Maupassant (3) 3. Capital of

Afghanistan (5) 4. Greatest of the legendary paladins who died in battle at Roncesvalles (6)

5. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland whose feast day is February 1st (7)

6. The 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the vulgate version of the Bible (9)

7. Mervyn Peake novel, centrepiece of a famous trilogy (11) 8. The period of European history marking the waning of the Middle Ages (11) 12. Character played by Jane Seymour in the Bond film Live and Let Die (9)

15. Lover of Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (7)

17. Long-barrelled shoulder gun used by infantry soldiers (6)

19. Viktor, 1932-35 world men’s table tennis champion (5)

21. In cricket, the side of the field to the left of and behind a righthanded batsman as he faces the bowler (3)