The Telegraph - GK CROSSWORD NO: 15 - Feb 2 2009

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Clues Answers
'The -- in the Rye', a novel by J.D. Salinger CATCHER
'The Adventures of -- --', a novel by Mark Twain TOMSAWYER
'The Road to --', a 1926 Lon Chaney film MANDALAY
-- Bolan, singer with T Rex, who called his music Cosmic Rock MARC
A battle in the English Civil War EDGEHILL
A landlocked republic in West Africa NIGER
A Longfellow poem, 'The Midnight Ride of Paul --' REVERE
A person keenly interested in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan SAVOYARD
A play by Roger Hall MIDDLEAGESPREAD
An egg-shaped wind instrument, also called 'sweet potato' OCARINA
Beryl --, English comedienne and actress (1919-96) REID
City on the Arkansas River WICHITA
Either of two historical books of the Old Testament CHRONICLES
Flowers associated with the William Wordsworth poem, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' DAFFODILS
Garlic mayonnaise AIOLI
Clues Answers
In Roman mythology, the god of fire and metalworking VULCAN
In the paper trade before metrication, a standard size of drawing paper (26 x 34in) ATLAS
Italian port and resort on the N Adriatic coast RIMINI
Karl --, German chemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1963 ZIEGLER
Mikhail --, Soviet statesman and Nobel Prize winner GORBACHEV
Port on the River Danube NOVISAD
Sir -- Cripps, English Labour statesman, economist, chemist and patent-lawyer STAFFORD
The Atlantic Provinces of Canada ACADIA
The chestnut horse ridden by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo COPENHAGEN
The festival of Shrove Tuesday MARDIGRAS
The former name of Thailand SIAM
The largest city in Africa and in the Middle East CAIRO
The second largest city in Austria GRAZ
US state on the Gulf of Mexico ALABAMA