GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1

Greek hero of the Trojan War (4)

8 Fast style of rock music originating in the south US in the mid 50s (10)

9 US golfer, a runner-up in the

1983 British Open (4,4)

10 1975 Steven Spielberg film (4) 12 Boastful servant and companion of Falstaff in Shakespeare plays (6)

14 Upper chamber of the US

legislature (6)

15 Phil and Don, American singers whose hits include Bye Bye Love (6)

17 1987 Stephen King novel (6) 18 ‘--- La Douce’, book by Alexandre Breffort which became a musical (4)

19 Small brightly coloured

parrot (8)

21 A structure in a cell nucleus

that carries the genes (10)

22 & 2 Down One-legged pirate

in Treasure Island (4,4,6)

DOWN

2 See 22 Across

3&7 ‘The Man With the ---’, 1963 Roger Corman film starring Ray Milland (1-3,4)

4 Walter, President of West

Germany 1974-79 (6)

5 Peter, playwright whose works include The Ruling Class (6)

6 American cult leader who led a mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 (3,5)

7 See 3

11 African vine cultivated for its

large edible fruit (10)

13 Aromatic plant whose leaves

are used for seasoning (8)

16 Colour of the ball worth two

points in snooker (6)

17 Fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones (6)

18 Unit of length, one twelfth of a

foot (4)

20 Canal which connects the

Baltic with the North Sea (4)