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General Knowledge No. 2,554

ACROSS

1 TV personality who married Lady Carina FitzalanHoward in 1983 (5,5) 7 Title of the rulers of Kuwait

(4) 8 Island in Poole Bay where the first scout camp took place in 1907 (8) 9 Host city of the 2004 Summer

Olympics (6) 10 Ancient forest in the north-east of Greater London (6) 11 Hat named after a female George du Maurier character (6) 13 The sacred texts of

Zoroastrianism (6) 15 Fish with beard-like mouth

appendages (6) 18 Irish county south of

Westmeath (6) 20 Flooring material consisting

of chips of marble (8) 21 Genus of trees commonly

known as maple (4) 22 1850 Charles Kingsley novel about the Chartist movement (5,5)

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1 In Greek mythology, the corn

goddess (7) 2 French creator of the

character Phileas Fogg (5) 3 Composer of the 1894 musical piece Prélude à l’aprés-midi d’un faune (7) 4 River on which Avignon

stands (5) 5 Biological junction between

two nerve cells (7) 6 Composer of the songs for the 1936 musical Show Boat (4) 12 Politician who emerged in the 1860s from the former Whig party (7) 13 Mexican salamander colloquially known as ‘a walking fish’ (7) 14 Colourless hydrocarbon with a smell similar to paint thinners (7) 16 Architecturally, the highest

point of an arch (4) 17 Italian football club founded

on January 9, 1900 (5) 19 Senegal’s currency unit (5)