CROSSWORD

General Knowledge No. 2,637

ACROSS

7 French cake made of thin

layers of puff pastry (12) 9 Last Miss Marple novel that Dame Agatha Christie wrote (7)

10 The constitutional capital of

Bolivia (5)

11 Hampshire river mentioned in the novel Watership Down (4)

12 Caribbean island with The

Valley as its capital (8) 14 Joseph Conrad novel set in the fictional country of Costaguana (8)

17 Ancient Jedi master of the

Star Wars films (4) 20 Stationery company founded

in London in 1893 (5) 21 Metallic element named by

Charles Hatchett in 1809 (7) 23 Soviet musician who gave his first cello concert in 1942 (12)

DOWN

1 Surname of the female English artist made a CBE in 2013 (4)

2 Scottish Castle where Princess Margaret was born in 1930 (6)

3 European river on which both Verdun and Maastricht stand (5)

4 UK car maker that launched the Interceptor coupé in 1950 (6)

5 French writer of the 1873

poem A Season in Hell (7) 6 Colourless liquid used in

antifreeze (6)

8 Monkey found only in the

Ethiopian Highlands (6) 11 Permanently frozen treeless

plains of the Arctic (6) 13 Material of which Cleopatra’s Needle in London is made (7)

15 Last of the judges in the

Bible’s Book of Judges (6) 16 Fifth president of the USA (6) 18 Green-skinned Egyptian god

of the afterlife (6)

19 The biggest section of the

large intestine (5)

22 Largest island of the

Seychelles (4)