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General knowledge again this week. If you prefer to work in the interactive version, click here. This will take you to the Crossword Compiler page which cannot be supported technically by GenevaLunch.

Across

1 Pike-like freshwater perch (4)

3 Brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide (8)

9 Very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes (7)

10 Percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument (5)

11 Instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) (6-6)

13 Pauses during which things are calm or activities are diminished (3-3)

15 Doxology sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches (6)

17 Musical composition with no fixed form in several movements (12)

20 Praise, glorify, or honour (5)

21 Hunter transformed into a stag by Artemis, hence someone with horns – a cuckold (7)

22 The palm civet (5,3)

23 United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behaviour in Polynesian cultures (4)

Down

1 Logarithmic unit of sound intensity (8)

2 Copy that is not the original (5)

4 Quality of being famous (6)

5 Distinctive weather of a small area (12)

6 English actor best know for his Shakespearean roles (1907-1989) (7)

7 Place of complete bliss and delight and peace (4)

8 United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) (5,7)

12 Cut off or left behind (8)

14 Touched by rot or decay (7)

16 Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king (6)

18 Daughter of one’s brother or sister (5)

19 Member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times (4)

Here is last week’s solution:

In ‘The Second Coming’ (Parousia) W. B. Yeats wrote, ‘Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold’. This was published in ‘The Dial’ and later used by Chinua Achebe in his work ‘Things Fall Apart’.

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