The Telegraph General Knowledge - Crossword Answers | 2014 05 05

crossword answers
Clue Answer
-- Lennox, Scottish singer-songwriter ANNIE
-- law, a law excluding women from succession to the throne in certain countries SALIC
-- beetle, a serious pest of potatoes COLORADO
Nursery rhyme; leading European two-year-old racehorse of 1990 HECTORPROTECTOR
Portuguese island - capital: Funchal MADEIRA
To catch birds by temporarily blinding them with light BATFOWL
'This Wheel's on Fire', a 1968 hit single by Julie -- with Brian Auger and The Trinity DRISCOLL
Simon --, British historian SCHAMA
Second largest city in Argentina ROSARIO
Variety of pear that does not ripen until winter NELIS
Fictional detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri SALVOMONTALBANO
Jeff --, American actor who starred in the 1986 film 'The Fly' GOLDBLUM
In Cheshire, a country house owned by the Duke of Westminster EATONHALL
Having only two toes, fingers, or claws DIDACTYL
Jo-Wilfried --, French tennis player TSONGA
Giovanni --, Italian painter of the Venetian school BELLINI
A hard flat whole-milk cheese, pale yellow in colour and with holes GRUYERE
County in Leinster province in the Republic of Ireland WICKLOW
NURSERY RHYME CHARACTER BOPEEP
Character played by Orlando Bloom in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers' LEGOLAS
Fern of cool or mountainous regions, with tufted rhizomes WOODSIA
Friend to Petruchio and suitor of Bianca in 'The Taming of the Shrew' HORTENSIO
Arthur --, American playwright who wrote 'Death of a Salesman' MILLER
'--: Scenes of Money and Death', a 1973 political drama by Edward Bond BINGO
Ben --, golfer, winner of the 1984 and 1995 Masters CRENSHAW
Any mineral having a metallic lustre, especially a simple sulphide GLANCE
1999 film starring Ralph Fiennes ONEGIN
1882 Epsom Derby winner SHOTOVER