General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

1. Former Australian cricketer and onetime highest run scorer (5,6)

9. European republic whose capital is

Budapest (7)

10. Long rope used for roping cattle (5)

11. Small shrub of the genus Thymus with a mintlike odour (5)

12. 20th letter in the Greek alphabet (7)

13. Francis of ---, Italian monk and saint whose feast day is October 4 (6)

15. Isambard Kingdom, English engineer who designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge (6)

18. North African country situated between Libya and Morocco (7)

20. Chingachgook’s son in The Last of the

Mohicans (5)

22. Mr. Toffler, American author of Future Shock and The Third Wave (5)

23. Member of a North American people now living chiefly in Oklahoma and Wyoming (7)

24. Severiano, 1988 British Open golf champion (11)

DOWN

2. Island in the Bristol Channel between S.W. England and Wales (5)

3. Middle name of Wolfgang Mozart (7)

4. Town in Calvados, France, associated with a famous tapestry (6)

5. Charles Stewart, car manufacturer partner of Henry Royce (5)

6. Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (7)

7. River in Iraq formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (5-2-4)

8. World heavyweight boxing champion 1962-64 (5,6)

14. Andres, Spanish guitarist who died in 1987 (7)

16. Slice of meat rolled around a stuffing and cooked (7)

17. Nearest French port to England (6)

19. Adjective relating to the kidney (5)

21. The Gran --- is a plain of swamps and forest between the Andes and the Paraguay River (5)