Complete Clue List
Across
1. Who was known as Dhul-Qarnayn (the two-horned one) in Eastern tradition?
7. Which US author philosopher was born in Massachusetts in 1803?
8. What is sold in Australia at the rate of 30:1 against exportation?
10. Which of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas features Japanese girls?
11. What is the feminine past participle of 'naître' and is used to indicate a maiden name?
12. Who wrote 'Silver Skates' and 'Hans Brinker'?
13. Which is the only poisonous snake in the UK?
15. What item was Pandora warned not to open?
16. What word describes the act of a goalkeeper preventing the football entering the goal?
17. What number is usually associated with the British Prime Minister?
18. Which Herb was the red-nosed aristocrat in the 1960s and 1970s programme?
21. Whose papers did Charles Dickens write about?
24. What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in the 1960s programme 'Daktari'?
27. Which cooking vessel is usally associated with witches?
28. What is the Welsh word for 'valley'?
29. What is the name given to a peasant in India?
31. Which company is affectionally known as the Beeb in the UK? (abbrev.)
33. What word defines a portion of a sphere bounded by the intersections of two parallel planes?
34. What is another name for brightly-coloured carp?
36. What acronym is used to describe the tiny, non-filament light bulbs used in modern technology?
38. What US association became the FCCLA?
39. Which country has the lowest birth rate in the world? (2 words)
Down
1. What is the period of four weeks preceding Christmas called?
2. Who was forced to resign from candidacy for US vice-presidency because of electro-shock treatment?
3. Who is credited with the first successful operation for appendicitis?
4. What is the usual abbreviation for the word 'reference' used in a typed letter?
5. What is the capital of Iceland?
6. What job did TV character Quincy have?
9. What is Dr Who's space ship called?
10. What breakfast food consists of mixed grain and fruit?
14. What is the US postal abbreviation for Delaware?
15. What was the name of the family who lived Upstairs at 165 Eaton Place?
18. Which French Physician became professor of medicine in 1658?
19. What is the name of the medicine produced from emetine found in a tropical shrub of the same name?
20. Who became British Prime Minister for the second time in 1874 at the age of 70?
22. What is a yiddish word for unbelievable gall or audacity?
23. What name connects a US President, a leader of the UK Liberal Democrats and a port in Queensland?
25. What do you call the right-hand page of an open book?
26. Which modern word comes from the past tense of the obsolete verb 'niman', which meant 'to take'?
29. Which of the UK armed forces replaced the RFC in 1918?
30. Which Russian river starts in the Sayan mountains and ends in the Volga?
32. Which part of a cricketer's equipment is made from willow specially grown for this purpose in the UK
35. How would a Roman write the number four?
37. What was the name of the lost, friendly alien in Spielberg's 1982 film?