The Telegraph – General Knowledge – May 20 2018 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘– of the Dump’, children’s book by Clive King |
STIG |
| — Bridge, village near Commando Memorial |
SPEAN |
| — Warhol, 1928-87, a pioneer of Pop Art |
ANDY |
| 1960 hit for Ray Charles |
GEORGIAONMYMIND |
| Awkward adolescence |
HOBBLEDEHOYHOOD |
| Bidding system in bridge |
ACOL |
| Bobby –, 1943-2008, US world champion chess player |
FISCHER |
| Derived SI unit of electric charge |
COULOMB |
| Dumplings used to garnish soup |
GNOCCHI |
| English author of ‘Original Sin’ |
PDJAMES |
| English aviator, author of ‘Biggles’ books |
WEJOHNS |
| Frederick –, author of ‘The Dogs of War’ |
FORSYTH |
| French dramatist whose plays include ‘Rhinoceros’ |
IONESCO |
| Greek epic poem attributed to Homer |
ILIAD |
| Hindu loincloth |
DHOTI |
| Hot dry Alpine wind blowing down a mountain valley |
FOHN |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Incarnation of Vishnu |
RAMA |
| Island in the north-west of the Canary Islands |
LAPALMA |
| Lively, energetic person, or a swindler |
HUSTLER |
| Low oven-shaped fumarole |
HORNITO |
| Of an order issued by government |
EDICTAL |
| Roman historian and orator famous as a prose stylist |
TACITUS |
| Russian river flowing into the Arctic; ‘is in eye’ (anag.) |
Yenisei |
| Scottish word meaning near the house |
INBY |
| Second-longest river in Spain |
EBRO |
| Sixth month of Jewish ecclesiastical year |
ELUL |
| Small obvious part of a much larger problem |
TIPOFTHEICEBERG |
| Son of Abraham and Hagar in the Old Testament |
ISHMAEL |
| Stable, reliable person |
TOWEROFSTRENGTH |
| Sweet cicely |
MYRRH |
| Thwarted by a blocking situation in golf |
STYMIED |
| Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian, known collectively as the — emperors of Rome |
FLAVIAN |