CROSSWORD General Knowledge No. 2,708

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1 Director of the 1997 US war

film GI Jane (6,5)

8 The Italian word for ‘Mr’ (6) 9 Japanese motorcycle company founded in 1955 (6)

10 The liquid that remains after milk has been curdled and strained (4)

11 Last but one poem in Philip Larkin’s 1974 collection High Windows (3,5)

13 Major capital city that was originally a fishing village called Edo (5)

15 Deciduous tree that bears

tiny cones of catkins (5) 18 Medieval stringed instrument similar to a dulcimer (8)

19 Trick-taking card game introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906 (4) 20 1927-2014 American aircraft company based at Wichita (6)

21 Grade-1 listed National Trust property two miles south of Wrexham (6) 22 German battleship sunk at the Battle of North Cape in 1943 (11)

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2 Red algae that grows on the eastern coasts of the North Atlantic (5,4)

3 Shipping forecast sea area

east of Fastnet (5) 4 Deceased jester whose skull

is held in Hamlet (6) 5 Wolf-like animal of the species

Canis latrans (6)

6 Guillotine cart for carrying prisoners in the French Revolution (7)

7 Location of the shield volcano

Olympus Mons (4) 12 Historian who wrote the biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers (9) 14 Membranous pouch

attached to an embryo (4,3) 16 Large grass-eating baboon of the Ethiopian Highlands (6)

17 Legendary two-legged, winged dragon seen in heraldry (6)

18 Member of an Iron Age society of northern and eastern Scotland (4) 19 Aaron Copland ballet first

performed in 1942 (5)