General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. African republic whose capital is Ndjamena (4)

8. ‘Titus ---’, tragedy by William Shakespeare (10)

9. Breed of spaniel having a slightly domed head (8)

10. One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint (4)

12. Agency of the

United Nations that sponsors programmes to promote education and the arts (6)

14. The indigenous religion of Japan (6)

15. Slimy creature in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (6)

17. Fanny, 19th century English stage actress (6)

18. Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on poetry by T.S. Eliot (4)

19 & 13D 1949 play by

Arthur Miller (5,2,1,8)

21. Former England

Test cricketer whose autobiography is entitled I Don’t Bruise Easily (5,5)

22. Bert, actor who played the cowardly lion in the film The Wizard of Oz (4)

DOWN

2. Island in the Caribbean divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic (10)

3. Salvador, Spanish surrealist painter who died in 1989 (4)

4. In ballet, a slow section of a pas de deux (6)

5. A.R., Australia cricketer whose centuries included 182 against England at Leeds in 1948 (6)

6. Strong white metallic element whose symbol is Ti (8)

7. Sholem, author of the 1939 literary work The Nazarene (4)

11. Mollusc of the genus Sepia (10)

13. See 19 Across

16. Italian family which produced the popes Leo X, Leo XI and Clement VII (6)

17. Diane, Best Actress Oscar winner for Annie Hall (6)

18. Ty, baseball star nicknamed ‘The Georgia Peach’ (4)

20. The rear part of a human foot (4)