CROSSWORDGeneralKnowledge

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ACROSS

1 US composer of the songs Ol’ Man River and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ( 6,4)

7 English painter of The Siren

and Ulysses in 1837 ( 4) 8 Small Scottish fishing port on the east coast of Loch Broom ( 8)

9 Biblical wife of Elkanah and

mother of Samuel ( 6) 10 Medical name for the stirrup

bone in the middle ear ( 6) 11 Most sacred part of an

ancient Greek temple ( 6) 13 Ant- eating Australian lizard

also called a thorn devil ( 6) 15 Painter such as Juan Gris or

Georges Braque ( 6) 18 Loyalty card introduced in

the UK in 2002 ( 6) 20 Chemical element that gives a red colour to commercial glass ( 8)

21 Spiral- horned antelope of

southern Africa ( 4) 22 Mountain range of which Ben Macdui is the second highest peak ( 9)

DOWN

1 Breed of draught horse

originating in Denmark ( 7) 2 The name coined for artificial

silk in 1924 ( 5)

3 English writer whose first novel was Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897 ( 7)

4 Irish town that gave its name to an ancient book of Latin Gospels ( 5) 5 Archangel responsible for healing in Abrahamic religions ( 7)

6 Shipping forecast sea area

west of Plymouth ( 4) 12 Fashionable neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City ( 7)

13 Medieval cannon at Edinburgh Castle that dates back to 1449 ( 4,3) 14 Hungarian dance with a gradually increasing tempo ( 7)

16 The pigmented middle of the three layers that make up the eye ( 4)

17 German city where Karl

Marx was born in 1818 ( 5) 19 American director of the

1964 film My Fair Lady ( 5)