General knowledge crossword

ACROSS

9. 1960’s American sitcom featuring the adventures of seven castaways (9,6)

10. Lines of equal atmospheric pressure on a meteorological map (7)

12. Eldest daughter in Shakespeare’s King Lear (7)

13. 1999 film starring Brad Pitt, based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk (5,4)

14. Russian host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics (5)

15. In Judaism, seven-branched candelabrum which represents the seven days of Creation (7)

18. Arboreal long-tailed birds of the Corvidae family (7)

21. Roman emperor who ruled after the assassination of the unpopular Domitian (5)

23. Scottish novelist, born 1850, who died in the Pacific islands aged 44 (9)

25. NZ evergreen shrubs or small trees bearing fragrant white flowers which are attractive to butterflies (7)

26. Navigational instrument on the masonic flag (7)

29. French actor who once said: “I’m happy with very little on this earth, but I do like to have a lot in my glass” (6,9)

DOWN

1. Large juicy hybrid fruit between a grapefruit, orange and tangerine (4)

2. Pet goldfish of Geppetto in Walt Disney’s 1940 film Pinocchio (4)

3. “I always tried to turn every __ into an opportunity”: John D. Rockefeller (8)

4. Fairytale character who, along with his sister, is captured by a wicked witch (6)

5. Central of Turkmenistan, founded in 1881 as a military fortification (8)

6. Species of driftfishes native to the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific oceans (6)

7. Scarlet European fungus (Peziza coccinea) (8)

8. Queen consort and wife of King William IV of England. Australia’s fifth largest city is named in her honour (8)

11. River which flows through Paris (5)

15. Sheep’s milk cheese produced in the La Mancha region of Spain (8)

16. London underground line with 50 stations, represented in black on the tube map (8)

17. “__ are like fires – they go out when unattended”: Zsa Zsa Gabor (8)

19. New Zealand band whose name was derived from a 1971 Led Zeppelin song (8)

20. English actor who played Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (5)

22. The princess in Walt Disney’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty (6)

24. Perfume created in 1991 by Calvin Klein (6)

27. South Pacific capital overlooked by Mount Vaea – the final resting place of 23 Across (4)

28. Small, cosy room, part of an inn or pub (4)