GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Across
10. Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928 (6)
11. American men’s magazine, first published 1933 (7)
12. __ Island, 2008 film starring Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin, about a young girl living on an island with her marine-biologist father (4)
13. Long, narrow spade traditionally used in Ireland (3)
14. National apple of Canada (8)
15. American international insurance corporation founded in 1919 (3)
16. Form of public transport used in Melbourne since 1906 (4)
17. Devastating hurricane which hit Florida on September 10, 2017 (4)
18. Upright tripod used for displaying artwork (5)
20. One of the world’s oldest cities, first mentioned 3500 years ago (6)
21. V for __, 2005 political thriller film starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving (8)
23. Hit song recorded by Freda Payne in 1970 (4,2,4)
25. “Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a __”: Lord Byron (5)
26. Animals who plot to take over Toad Hall in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (7)
28. In Jewish folklore, anthropomorphic creature magically brought to life (5)
31. Italian director and producer born 1923, best known for his 1968 Romeo and Juliet (10)
34. Thick textile fabric decorated with pictures or designs, often hung on a wall (8)
35. Bird which lays the largest egg in relation to its body size (4)
36. Honorific title given to certain churches in England once connected to a monastery (7)
37. Plant fibre used to make hessian sacks (4)
39. Nickname of Edwin Eugene Aldrin, second man to set foot on the Moon (4)
40. British car company (19021996) which made car parts, including a lamp called ‘King of the Road’ (5)
42. American comedy film in which Jim Carrey plays the role of Fletcher Reede (4,4)
43. British record company which built a recording studio at Abbey Road, London, in 1931 (3)
44. 1971 thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Dennis Weaver (4)
45. __ __ and Principe, island nation in the Gulf of Guinea (3,4)
46. “Technology is a __ servant but a dangerous master”: Christian Louis Lange (6)
Down
1. Aircraft developed in the 1960s, with only 20 ever built and 14 used in passenger service (8)
2. Fixed number of lines forming a unit of a poem (6)
3. Children’s novel by Roald Dahl, published in 1990 (4,4)
4. Garden in Jerusalem where Jesus and his disciples slept the night before his crucifixion (10)
5. NASA research satellite which has been studying water on Earth’s surface and atmosphere since 2002 (4)
6. American actor and comedian who starred in the sitcom Home Improvement (3,5)
7. American actor who moved to Australia with his family when he was 12 (3,6)
8. Musical which had its debut on Broadway in 1934 and features the song I Get a Kick Out of You (8,4)
9. Foretold name of the Messiah in the Old Testament (8)
19. San ____, Basque city on the Bay of Biscay, 20km from the Spanish-French border (9)
21. Capital city of Liechtenstein (5)
22. New Zealand artist who created Mickey to Tiki (4,8)
24. Pacifier for an infant (5)
27. Album released by The Rolling Stones in 1969 (3,2,5)
29. Style of post-war architecture personified by the French architect Le Corbusier (9)
30. Thracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic (9)
32. Greek philosopher, 341 BC 270 BC, who taught that pleasure and pain represent what is good and evil (8)
33. Sheep puppet character created by ventriloquist Shari Lewis in the 1950s (4,4)
37. Shakespeare character featured in the NATO phonetic alphabet (6)
38. The New Zealand clam, Paphies subtriangulata (6)
41. __ Hands, song released in 2017 by former One Direction member Niall Horan (4)