GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across 1.

Monument in central London, designed by John Nash (6,4)

5. Trick consisting of running with a skateboard, dropping it and jumping on (4,4)

11. Word repeated by The Archies in the title of a 1969 hit song (5)

13. Natural patina formed on copper, brass or bronze (9)

14. Vietnamese noodle soup served with chicken or beef (3)

15. Knot or roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck (7)

16. Storm in a ___, song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (6)

18. __ Blue, album released by Madonna in June 1986 (4)

19. At 715sq km, Britain’s largest island outside Scotland (8)

20. Therapist who manipulates bones and muscles (9)

24. Capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (8)

28. Character played by Jane Fonda in a 1965 comedy western film (3,6)

30. English writer who said: “A woman must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction” (5)

31. A version of this Frank Sinatra song was used in John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign (4,5)

32. English king known as the Unready (8)

35. Surgical procedure known as a rhytidectomy (8)

36. World’s most populous landlocked country (8)

41. Anise-flavoured Greek aperitif (4)

43. Manager of England’s national football team 1963-1974 (6)

45. Flower-like symbol used in art and design (7)

47. A mischievous fairy (3)

48. US river which flows into the Gulf of Mexico (3,6)

49. “To reach a port we must sail – sail, not __ at anchor – sail, not drift”: Franklin D. Roosevelt (3)

50. Canadian actor who was married to Scarlett Johansson 2008-11 (8)

51. Casual shoe which originated in the Pyrenees (10)

Down

1. “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a ___”: Albert Einstein (8)

2. Apparatus on sailing ships including masts, yards, sails and ropes (7)

3. First word (title) of the Australian national anthem (7)

4. Member of the clergy authorised to conduct religious worship (6)

6. Setting of Gerald Durrell’s 1956 book My Family and Other Animals (5)

7. Word that precedes jacket, bowl and storm (4)

8. Surname of George and Mildred in the British sitcom Man About the House (5)

9. He was chained to a rock by Zeus for giving fire to mankind (10)

10. Pet cat of Geppetto and Pinocchio (6)

12. Scottish football club whose home ground is Ibrox (7)

17. New Zealand actress who played Loretta West in Outrageous Fortune (7)

21. Tapered tube on a golf club (5)

22. Holden Caulfield’s younger (dead) brother in J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye (5)

23. Only landlocked country in southeast Asia (4)

25. Dutch multi-national banking and finance corporation whose logo is an orange lion (3)

26. Nickname for the state of Indiana (7)

27. “Love planted a rose, and the world turned __”: Katharine Lee Bates (5)

28. Musical symbol (4)

29. Piece of furniture whose name comes from the French for ‘rag-picker’ (10)

33. English city known in Roman times as Ratae Corieltauvorum (9)

34. Species of medium-sized European black goose (8)

37. Crisp fabric made from silk (7)

38. English composer (1659-1695) and organist at Westminster Abbey, who is buried adjacent to the cathedral’s organ (7)

39. Ad ___, latin phrase which means‘to the stars’ (5)

40. Greek god of sleep who lived in Erebos (6)

42. Wide-mouthed friend of George and Bungle (5)

44. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to __ it”: Jean de La Fontaine (5)

46. Bond film set in Jamaica (2,2)