General Knowledge

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Author who turned a man into a bug and left us with bureaucracy (5)
• The fertile grass sea of South America (6)
• A dark stone that spoke three languages at once (7)
• A harbor wave born from a deep earth tremor (7)
• The political advisor who preferred fear over love (11)
• An ideal island that literally nowhere exists (6)
• A sandy plateau with highly triangular residents (4)
• A dark stone that sounds like a fingernail (4)
• A speaker who only repeats what they are told (4)
• The military muscle behind a puppet emperor (6)
• A celestial beast that is hard to bear (4)

Down

• The day when the sun stands still at the extreme ends of the year (8)
• The main highway leading out of the heart (5)
• Indivisible unit that was proved completely wrong (4)
• High for a man, but low for a woman (4)
• A long story from the icy north (4)
• A spinning skirt that never hits the floor (4)
• An estate in the clouds built without mortar (11)
• The astronomer who put the sun in its proper place (10)
• Volcanic glass that was the scalpel of the ancient world (8)
• A temple of virgin wisdom overlooking Athens (9)
• An archipelago of tortoises that inspired a giant leap in biology (9)
• An active change in a silent chamber (4)
• A fossilized trap for ancient hitchhikers (5)
• Ill wind that nobody blows good (4)

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