GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lycanthrope, person believed to have been changed into a wild animal (8)

5 Italian resort near Salerno (6) 9 Red-skinned variety of apple (8)

10 Roman statesman who led conspiracy to assassinate Caesar (6) 11 Something pulled along the bottom of the water to catch fish (5-3)

14 Japanese military governor (6)

15 Piece of jewellery on the side of the face (7)

16 _____ Kitt, US cabaret singer and actress (6) 19 Scottish dish with stewed potatoes (7)

20 Grilled Italian-style sandwich (6)

21 Person who is not so young (7) 26 Landlocked African country formerly Nyasaland (6) 27 This seaman ranks below an able seaman (8)

28 Gaelic word for a small lake in Scotland (6)

29 In India the site of the Sikhs’ holiest temple (8)

30 Confused mass of threads (6) 31 Islands forming the greater

part of the West Indies (8)

DOWN

1 North American deer (6) 2 40th President of the USA (6) 3 Fictional character on

Wimbledon Common (6) 4 Dawdle proceed lingeringly (6) 6 Methane, it’s produced when vegetation decomposes in water (5-3)

7 Dispute especially by a lawsuit (8)

8 In the style of a Norwegian dramatist (8) 12 Tetrabranchiate cephalopods (7)

13 City in Veneto region in northern Italy (7)

14 Made a sudden involuntary sternutation (7)

17 Monty Python’s _____, a musical comedy (8)

18 Of the Church of England (8) 19 Advocaat and lemonade (8) 22 Harry S _____, 33rd US President (6)

23 Port and resort in northeast Italy (6)

24 Dependent landholder in feudal society (6)

25 Island in Mediterranean south of Turkey (6)