GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

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1 Places where wildlife is protected (12,5) 2 A member of a wandering pastoral community (5)

3 An uncommon thing or incident (6) 4 A gelatinous mass of cyanobacteria once thought to be of meteoric origin (6,4) 5 Partial darkness (5)

6 Possibly the smallest lizard known to science (4-9)

7 Clear, bright green precious stones (8) 8 Border between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space named after a Hungarian born physicist (6,4)

9 A cell found in the muscle of the heart (13) 13 Usually the last stage of production in e.g. sodium (17)

17 Most fungi are these type of organisms (13) 19 The practice of capturing, storing, processing and analysing data near the client (4,9)

24 A bear native to south central China (5,5) 25 US aviator Ed Yost was a pioneer in this activity (10)

29 A society in the US for the singing of choral music (4,4)

33 Another term for advanced or modernistic (2-4)

36 An injection of fluid into the lower bowel e.g. to introduce drugs (5)

37 A slang term in the US for an agent who enforces laws on the illicit production of drugs (5)

ACROSS

1 The property of an object moving away from the middle of rotation (13) 8 Robert, German physician who was a founder of bacteriology (4)

10 A symbol used to express a quantity (7) 11 Another name for the snow leopard (5) 12 Boy’s name that derives from the Irish for ‘red king’ (5) 14 Warm-blooded (11)

15 An amino acid that is a common constituent of proteins (7)

16 Part of a boot or shoe covering the front of the foot (4)

18 Alan, the first US astronaut to travel in space (7)

20 A boundary or restriction (5)

21 A granular or compact mineral found in magnesium-rich rocks (4)

22 Non-flowering aquatic plants that include seaweed (5)

23 Latin expression meaning ‘entirely’ (2,4) 26 On the ____ of Species, work on evolution by Charles Darwin published in 1859 (6) 27 The prehensile claw of an arthropod such as a crab (5)

28 ____ disease, a virus transmitted to humans by ticks, affecting the joints, heart and nervous system (4) 30 International organisation founded in 1967 to which Indonesia among others belongs (5)

31 Relating to the threshold of consciousness (7)

32 The brightest star in the constellation of Lyra (4)

34 An obscuration of the light of the Sun or Moon by the intervention of another body (7)

35 Impassive or not showing feelings (11) 38 ____ goose, another name for the northern gannet (5)

39 The longest river in France (5)

40 Mistakenly (2,5)

41 A large black and white killer whale (4)

42 Prevailing model by which astronomers explain the beginning of the Universe (3,4,6)