GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 The nest of an eagle (5)

8 W.S., English dramatist who collaborated with Arthur Sullivan on a series of comic operettas (7)

9 Cord which opens a parachute from its pack when pulled (7)

10 Chaim, actor who played the Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof (5)

12 1927 Fritz Lang film featuring

Brigitte Helm (10)

15 Freshwater fish of Asia and Australia which catches insects by spitting water at them (10)

18 Marine coastal eel such as

Muraena helena (5)

19 George, governor of

Alabama paralysed in a 1972 assassination attempt (7)

21 The International --- fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (7)

22 Stephen, American author of The Red Badge of

Courage (5)

DOWN

1 Mineral used to make

tobacco pipes (10)

2 Fruit dried to make raisins,

currants or sultanas (5)

3 Roman emperor from

54-68 A.D. (4)

4 Port in S.W. Morocco which was virtually destroyed by an earthquake in 1960 (6)

5 Duck-billed ---, egg-laying

mammal of Australia (8)

6 Finch such as Acanthis flammea with a red crown and pink breast (7)

11 Californian city on the

Pacific (3,7)

13 Medieval English morality play in which the central figure represents mankind (8)

14 Sign of the zodiac associated with late October and early November (7)

16 John, Author of The French

Lieutenant’s Woman (6)

17 Country also known as ‘The

Land of the Rising Sun’ (5)

20 “The Rape of the ---”, poem

by Alexander Pope (4)