The Telegraph – General Knowledge – Apr 8 2018 Crossword Solution
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— II, last ruler of Aztec empire in Mexico |
MONTEZUMA |
Abbreviation for a county in northern England |
NORTHUMB |
Bantu language widely used in East Africa |
SWAHILI |
Beat with a stick on the soles of the feet |
BASTINADO |
Bird that’s a dangerous creature in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poems |
JUBJUB |
Cavalry regiment commanded by Oliver Cromwell |
IRONSIDES |
Collection of quatrains by Omar Khayyam |
RUBAIYAT |
Contagious infection of the skin |
IMPETIGO |
English author of ‘The Stones of Venice’ |
RUSKIN |
Evil fame or public reputation |
INFAMY |
Female farm animal |
NANNYGOAT |
Hungarian professor who invented a famous cube |
RUBIK |
Hypothetical charged subatomic particle of large mass |
WBOSON |
In zoology, small hooked structures |
UNCINI |
Jean-Jacques –, 1712-78, French philosopher and writer |
ROUSSEAU |
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Military district on boundary of former Hungarian kingdom |
BANAT |
One using tribal objects as symbols of kinship |
TOTEMIST |
Opera in four parts by Verdi |
ERNANI |
Person who studies trees |
ARBORICULTURIST |
Place in court where committee of adjudicators sit during a trial |
JURYBOX |
Port at mouth of River Elbe in north-west Germany |
CUXHAVEN |
Relating to Moses’s brother |
AARONIC |
Small slender racing dog |
WHIPPET |
Structure designed to give lift in flight |
AEROFOIL |
Style of Black African urban music originating in Soweto |
MBAQANGA |
Tetrabranchiate cephalopods |
NAUTILI |
The Sunflower State |
KANSAS |
Titan in Greek mythology, personification of river believed to flow around Earth |
OCEANUS |
Village in Wychavon District in southern Worcestershire |
BREDON |