The Telegraph General Knowledge - Crossword Answers | 2013 02 25

crossword answers
Clue Answer
City in Brazil, capital of Acre state RIOBRANCO
Daniel --, author of 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Moll Flanders' DEFOE
Domestic chicken of a medium-sized American breed WYANDOTTE
Field game; insect related to the grasshopper CRICKET
Genus of trees native to southeast Asian rainforests AQUILARIA
Historically, an autumn gathering at which farmhands and servants were hired MOPFAIR
Large, highly venomous African snake, black or green MAMBA
Singer-songwriter whose chart successes include 'Love and Affection' (1976) JOANARMATRADING
Smooth-bodied lizard with short limbs SKINK
Hertfordshire town on the Great North Road STEVENAGE
Alexandre --, author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers' DUMAS
'-- in Paris', a 1952 musical starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger APRIL
1983 film starring Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and Harrison Ford as Han Solo RETURNOFTHEJEDI
1988 Roman Polanski film, starring Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner FRANTIC
A hunting ground of the West Saxon kings NEWFOREST
A ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognised authority FATWA
Succulent plant with rosettes of narrow spiny leaves and tall flower spikes AGAVE
Term referring to a character in Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' MADHATTER
The eelgrass or grasswrack genus ZOSTERA
The largest monolith in the world AYERSROCK
Book by James Baldwin (1963) THEFIRENEXTTIME
Highest mountain in the world EVEREST
Catherine --, heroine of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' MORLAND
Carolyn --, pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories KEENE
Anne --, Irish author whose novel 'The Gathering' won the 2007 Man Booker Prize ENRIGHT
Birthplace of the Spanish painter Luis de Morales BADAJOZ
Novel by Evelyn Waugh (1942) PUTOUTMOREFLAGS
Hit single by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caball� BARCELONA