GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across

10. 1962 song by The Four Seasons originally named “Jackie Baby’’, after then-US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (6)

11. Current emperor of Japan who succeeded his father, Hirohito, in 1989 (7)

12. US comedy series featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a former Maryland senator (4)

13. Open, grassy land suitable for grazing by livestock (3)

14. The ___ of Zenda: 1894 novel by Anthony Hope, set in the fictional European kingdom of Ruritania (8)

15. The first accommodation of this type opened in San Luis Obispo, California, in 1925 (5)

16. The __Show, British radio comedy created by Spike Milligan (4)

17. Surname of the entrepreneur who created Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in 1883 (4)

18. Remedy taken to settle the stomach (7)

20. Narrow channel of the sea (6)

21. Object of fear for someone suffering from coulrophobia (6)

23. British female pilot who set long-distance records in the 1930s (3,7)

25. Don’t Get Me __, 1986 hit by The Pretenders (5)

26. National anthem known as the March of the Volunteers (7)

28. “He that keeps nor crust nor __, weary of all shall want some”: King Lear, Act 1, Scene IV (5)

30. Tropical plant known as Bird of Paradise (10)

33. Housing facility for the elderly (4,4)

36. Sport introduced to the Olympics in 1904, dominated by the USA and China (6)

37. “More business is lost every year through __ than through any other cause”: Rose Kennedy (7)

38. Month whose birthstone is the ruby (4)

39. Benjamin Earl __, singer and co-composer of the 1961 hit Stand By Me (4)

40. Allium cepa, flavoursome vegetable of the lily family (5)

42. Large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel which can be a brigantine, barque or schooner (4,4)

43. Book of the Old Testament (3)

44. Exposed surface of a cliff, mine or quarry (4)

45. “A good moustache makes a man for many __”: John Oates (7)

46. In film production, raw footage from a day’s shooting (6)

Down

1. Black porous residue of partly burnt wood or bones (8)

2. Clown character who appears in The Simpsons (6)

3. French sauce of demi-glace, white wine vinegar and onions (9)

4. Colourful marine species with beak-like teeth (10)

5. The __, 1991 John Grisham novel featuring the character Mitch McDeere (4)

6. Word which is anniversaire in French, cumpleanos in Spanish, and compleanno in Italian (8)

7. New Zealand actor who starred in Boy and The Dark Horse (9)

8. American actress, 1922-1990, who was married to Mickey Rooney and Frank Sinatra (3,7)

9. Family of hard Italian cheeses made from ewe’s milk (8)

19. Group of convict labourers (5,4)

21. Isle of Wight town twinned with New Zealand’s Bulls (5)

22. Perennial plant, Tradescantia fluminensis (9,3)

24. The __ gases: collective term for helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon (5)

27. Method used to determine the suitability of an actor for a role (6,4)

29. The world’s longest venomous snake (4,5)

31. Southernmost island of the Caribbean, 11km off the coast of Venezuela (8)

32. Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, birthplace of Freddy Mercury (8)

34. People who took up residence in a new colony (8)

35. Nation in the Indian Ocean whose currency is the rufiyaa (8)

38. Collection of stories by British author Rudyard Kipling (4,2)

41. Small or out-of-the-way corner or recess in a room (4)