GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Thomas, poet who authored Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4)

3 Class of animals which includes the newt and salamander (8)

9 Extensive region of Europe also called the Land of the Midnight Sun (7)

10 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

by Alex Haley (5)

11 1974 novel by Erica Jong

(4,2,6)

13 Marine animal of the phylum

Porifera (6)

15 Deputy to Duke Vincentio in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (6)

17 Novel by Charles Dickens

featuring Grip the raven (7,5) 20 Device for converting light of mixed frequencies into a narrow beam of coherent light (5)

21 Mr. Hill, English originator of

the ‘penny post’ system (7) 22 Line at each end of a tennis court that marks the limit of play (8)

23 ‘King ---’, play by

Shakespeare (4)

DOWN

1 A popular aquarium or pond

fish (8)

2 First letter of the Greek

alphabet (5)

4 In Cricket, the fielding position on the off side closest to the bowler (3-3)

5 English actor whose screen roles included the predatory brother of Beryl Reid in Entertaining Mr. Sloane (5,7)

6 A small square nutty

chocolate cake (7)

7 Recess at the east end of a

church (4)

8 Officer immediately junior to a lieutenant general in the army (5,7)

12 Widely cultivated North

American maple (3,5)

14 Aristotle, Greek shipping

magnate who died in 1975 (7) 16 King of the fairies in medieval

folklore (6)

18 The male of a duck (5)

19 Card of the lowest ranking

suit in bridge (4)