General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

7. Hasim, boxer defeated by

Lennox Lewis in a November, 2001 world heavyweight title fight (6)

8. Desert in North Africa (6)

10. Form of music for Scottish bagpipes consisting of a theme and variations (7)

11. Stephen, cyclist who won the 1987 Giro d’Italia (5)

12. Region in central Uttar Pradesh,which was a centre of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58 (4)

13. Lion in the Narnia tales by C.S.

Lewis (5)

17. Frank, author of the book The Foxes of Harrow (5)

18. Play by Jez Butterworth filmed in 1997 (4)

22. Charles, narrator of the novel Brideshead

Revisited (5)

23. 1988 action film starring Bruce

Willis and Alan Rickman (3,4)

24. Percussion instrument consisting of a thin circular piece of brass (6)

25. 1978 play by David Hare (6)

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1. Inert gaseous element whose symbol is Kr (7)

2. 2000 Jonas McCord film starring Antonio Banderas and Olivia Williams (3,4)

3. A.E.W., author of The Four

Feathers (5)

4. François, French author who won the 1952 Nobel prize for literature (7)

5. Third month of the year (5)

6. Dornford, writer whose books include 1920’s Berry and Co. (5)

9. The first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery by Dorothy L.

Sayers (5,4)

14. Mongoose such as Suricata swicatta (7)

15. 1987 film starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah (7)

16. Samuel, film producer who died in 1974 (7)

19 & 21D Best Actress Oscar winner for the 1954 film The Country Girl (5,5)

20. Richard, author of Watership Down (5)

21. See 19 Down