GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS 7

South American river which rises in the Peruvian Andes and flows to the Atlantic (6)

8 Central American state,

capital Belmopan (6)

10 1988 Bruce Willis film

featuring Alan Rickman (3,4) 11 Mediterranean plant with small white or pink flowers whose seeds are used to flavour the liqueur kümmel (5) 12 1965 novel by Frank

Herbert (4)

13 Christoph, German composer whose stage works include the ballet Don Juan (5)

17 Dick, character in Fitzgerald’s

Tender is the Night (5)

18 Long accompanied song for

one voice in an opera (4)

22 Any of the 12 broad-faced

grinding teeth in man (5)

23 Windward Island in the Caribbean whose capital is Castries (2,5)

24 Libyan seaport, an important

battle site in World War II (6) 25 Plant of the genus Rhododendron cultivated for its showy pink or purple flowers (6)

DOWN 1

Voltaire novel featuring

Doctor Pangloss (7)

2 Italian port in Campania; scene of an Allied landing in 1943 (7)

3 Ben, 1953 U.S. Open golf

champion (5)

4 Thomas Love, English novelist whose works include Nightmare Abbey (7)

5&19 New York-born actor whose TV roles include Victor Sifuentes in L.A. Law (5,5)

6 River which flows through

Paris (5)

9 Small alpine flowering plant

with white oblong leaves (9) 14 Kansas-born athlete who set world records for the mile and half mile in 1966 (3,4)

15 Bram Stoker novel set partly

in Whitby, England (7)

16 Period of 30 days in the Muslim year during which strict fasting is observed (7) 19 See 5.

20 London theatre where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed (5)

21 1989 Paul Newman film based on a scandal involving governor Earl Long (5)