GK CROSSWORD

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1 Ibsen play featuring the character Haakon Werle (3,4,4)

9 ‘--- and Old Lace’, play by

Joseph Kesselring (7)

10 ‘The --- Kings Play Songs of Love’, Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos (5)

11 Helen, Best Actress Oscarwinner for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (5)

12 Chapel of the Pope in the

Vatican at Rome (7)

13 Spiny-finned fish which attach

themselves to other fish (6)

15 Independent state on Borneo whose capital is Bandar Seri Begawan (6)

18 Poem consisting of 13 or 10

lines with two rhymes (7)

20 Eurasian plant with spikes of small white flowers and aromatic leaves (5)

22 H2O (5)

23 Vyacheslav, Russian politician who attended the Potsdam conference (7)

24 Actor whose TV roles included Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (5,6)

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2 Breed of Arctic sled dog with

a thick dense coat (5)

3 The official name of the British

royal family from 1917 (7)

4 Orthopterous insect which travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation (6)

5 Alexandre, author of The

Three Musketeers (5)

6 Albert, detective creation of

Margery Allingham (7)

7 Amateur detective creation of

G. K. Chesterton (6,5)

8 1920 D.H. Lawrence novel featuring the Brangwen sisters (5,2,4)

14 Mammal of the genus Trichecus which resembles a whale (7)

16 Viral disease also called

German measles (7)

17 East Indian tree whose seed

is used as a spice (6)

19 The nest of an eagle (5)

21 Erik, French composer whose works included Trois Morceaux en forme de poire (5)