GK CROSSWORD

ACROSS 3 Former name of Ethiopia (9) 8 “--- Bede”, novel by George

Eliot (4) 9 Mountain in Rio de Janeiro

(5,4) 10 & 24 Across Novel by John

Steinbeck (2,4,3,3) 11 Michael, 1989 French Open

tennis champion (5) 14 The --- goose, Branta bernicla, is found in northern coastal regions (5) 15 Capital of Qatar (4) 16 Disembodied hand in The

Addams Family household (5) 18 A forward in rugby (4) 20 In Greek mythology, the underworld abode of the souls of the dead (5) 21 Upper part of the bows of a ship which houses the holes through which the anchor ropes pass (5) 24 See 10 25 Genus of shrubs with yellow

bell-shaped flowers (9) 26 “--- Wars”, 1977 science

fiction film (4) 27 Tom, actor who appeared in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests (9)

DOWN

1 Common auk, Alca torda, of

the North Atlantic (9) 2 Tourist centre in Florida between Lake Worth and the Atlantic (4,5) 4 Colour of the ball worth five

points in snooker (4) 5 In tennis, a fast and powerful

overhead stroke (5) 6 “The ---”, 1979 novel by Peter

Benchley (6) 7 Country whose capital is

Baghdad (4) 9 Paul, English novelist who authored the “Raj Quartet” series (5) 11 Small purple-flowered plant whose leaves are used in cooking (5) 12 Oliver, Irish author of She

Stoops to Conquer (9) 13 Daughter of Priam endowed

with the gift of prophecy (9) 17 African republic whose capital

is Accra (5) 19 Title assumed by Prussian

king Wilhelm (6) 22 Erik, French composer who

died in 1925 (5) 23 Dorothy’s dog in the film The

Wizard of Oz (4) 24 Verdi opera set in Egypt (4)