General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

6. Member of a group of 16th and 17th-century English Protestants (7)

7. Republic which occupies the western part of the island of Hispaniola (5)

9. Small Old World songbird of the genus Parus (3)

10. Wolfdog in a novel by Jack London (5,4)

12. American country singer married to Tammy Wynette from 1968-75 (6,5)

15. Character in Gone with the Wind, third husband of Scarlett O’Hara (5,6)

17. The scientific study of celestial bodies and the universe as a whole (9)

19 and 21. British comedian, author of the novel Stark (3,5)

21. See 19.

22 and 8 Dn. 1902 play

by J.M. Barrie (7,6)

DOWN

1. Marie, Polish-born French physicist who isolated pure radium (5)

2. --- de Janeiro, capital of Brazil from 1763 to 1960 (3)

3. Johann Sebastian, composer of the Brandenburg Concertos (4)

4. Ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620 (9)

5. Port capital of the Falkland Islands (7)

8. See 22 Ac.

11. Officer commanding 100 foot soldiers in ancient Rome (9)

13. Peter Paul, Flemish Baroque painter who died in 1640 (6)

14. “--- Down the Wind”, 1961 film based on a novel by Mary Hayley Bell (7)

16. J. Paul, U.S. oil executive and multimillionaire who died in 1976 (5)

18. Volcanic island, second largest of the Hawaiian Islands (4) 20. Organisation founded in 1964 of which Yasser Arafat was the chairman (3)