GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Across
1. Small fortification which allows its defenders to fire in all directions (10)
6. __ Bridge, home ground of Chelsea Football Club (8)
12. “I’m really good at __”: Elon Musk (5)
13. Persons who carry out the instructions of a will (9)
14. The __ Ape: 1922 play by Eugene O’Neill about a labourer searching for his place in the world (5)
15. European capital city on the banks of the Sava river (6)
17. Hindu festival associated with harvest time (4)
18. Japanese electronics company whose name translates as ‘leave luck to heaven’ (8)
19. Flying reptile which existed for 160 million years, from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (9)
23. Symbol on a keyboard whose name comes from the ancient Greek for little star (8)
26. Waterbus service which operates around Venice and nearby islands (9)
27. Greek island famous for the statue of Aphrodite (5)
28. Guitarist with the Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993 (4,5)
30. Raised pore in the stem of a plant (8)
33. Short extract from a recorded interview (9)
35. Actor who played Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films (8)
39. “There is no time for __ and comfort. It is time to dare and endure”: Winston Churchill (4)
41. City which is the home of the Spanish Riding School (6)
43. Greek island in the Dodecanese chain (3)
45. Rabbit breed with ears that droop (3)
46. United States National military cemetery, established 1864 (9)
47. “__ come from the heart and not from the brain”: Leonardo da Vinci (5)
48. Airline, founded 1923, which flew around 1.5 million missions during World War II (8)
49. Period in British history from the end of the Roman occupation until the Norman conquest in 1066 (5,5)
Down
1. Chairman of British Railways associated with the 1960s reduction of railway networks (8)
2. Alexis ___, co-founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams (7)
3. Slang for ‘Number 1’ in a game of bingo (6,3)
4. __ __, One Heart, song from the 1961 musical West Side Story (3,4)
5. One of the Seven Dwarfs (6)
7. Cut of beef taken from the short loin (1-4)
8. __ ox: shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland (4)
9. Japanese hot spring bath (5)
10. Role of Johnny Clem, a nineyear-old who was reputedly the youngest participant in the US Civil War (7,3)
11. 2005 song released by Madonna (4,2)
16. Keeping a vehicle stationary whilst spinning its wheels, causing the tyres to heat up and smoke (7)
20. Backcomb the hair to create extra volume (5)
21. Character in The Simpsons who was Marge’s prom date and became a software billionaire (5)
22. The body’s largest organ with an average weight of 1.6 kilograms (4)
24. Initialism for the sequence of the colours of the rainbow (7)
25. German manufacturer of microcars founded in 1994, part of Daimler (5)
26. Small rodent, similar to a mouse, common in fields and meadows (4)
28. Plant used in herbal medicine, also known as Indian frankincense (9)
29. Island chain which is part of Fiji (3)
31. Sports footwear with five types, including touring and racing (3,6)
32. Actress who played the role of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files (8)
34. Term for warming of the ocean surface in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (2,4)
36. The rank below brigadier general in the US Army (7)
37. Site near Montignac, France where more than 600 cave paintings were discovered (7)
38. Surname of actor who starred in Twister and Apollo 13 (6)
40. Deep sleep from which it is difficult to awaken (5)
42. Home of Pingu in a children’s animated series (5)
44. A young giraffe (4)