GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1

In American football, a player positioned behind the centre who directs attacking play (11)

9 State in India whose capital is

Panaji (3)

10 1854 battle of the Crimean

War (9)

11 Sidney, Australian painter who made his name with a series of ‘Ned Kelly’ paintings (5)

13 “--- Things”, 1991 book by

Stephen King (7)

14 Duke of ---, character formerly known as Plantagenet Palliser in stories by Anthony Trollope (6) 16 Michael, actor whose screen roles included the spaceman in 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (6)

18 --- dysentery is inflammation of the intestines caused by the parasite Endamoeba histolytica (7)

19 Franz, Hungarian composer of the operetta The Merry

Widow (5)

20 Mollusc such as the snail, slug

or limpet (9)

21 21st letter in the Greek alphabet,

transliterated as ph or f (3)

22 Region of S.W. Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (11)

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2 Miss Thurman, Mia in Pulp

Fiction (3)

3 Small Old World songbird related to the thrush, the male of which has an orange-red breast (5)

4 London film studio which produced comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mob (6)

5 Any of several North American trees with erect clusters of white or red flowers (7)

6 Common European finch with

black and white wings (9)

7 Highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for defoliation by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War (5,6)

8 Actor who played Victor Laszlo

in film the Casablanca (4,7)

12 Another name for the spiny

lobster (9)

15 King of Italy assassinated at

Monza in 1900 (7)

17 Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the Second Punic War (6)

19 Ancient region on the coast of

W. Asia Minor (5)

21 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet, transliterated as ps (3)