GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Across
1. Informal term for lawyers who are a King’s or Queen’s Counsel (5)
4. Collective name for a group of zebras (6)
8. Daughter of Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance (5)
12. Pitch variation which adds expression to vocal and instrumental music (7)
13. Long white robe worn by clergymen (3)
14. Narcissus with small, yellow flowers (7)
15. Babylonian goddess of the watery deep, a daughter of Ea (4)
16. Popular name for the small, nocturnal African primate properly known as a galago, or nagapies in Afrikaans (8)
18. Member of a Bantu people living mainly in Rwanda and Burundi (5)
19. Active stratovolcano in the Philippines which erupted in 1991 (8)
21. New Zealand bird which almost became extinct in the 1980s and now numbers around 250 (5,5)
23. Saloth Sar, Cambodian communist revolutionary, leader of Khmer Rouge from 1963 to 1997 (3,3)
26. Street dance which originated in Los Angeles in the early 2000s (8)
29. “The Republican party is an empty vessel unless we __ it with values”: Rand Paul (5)
30. Gina ____, mining billionaire who is one of Australia’s richest people (8)
31. Cockney rhyming slang for piano (6)
33. Publication which appears at fixed intervals such as monthly or quarterly (10)
35. Decorative geometric border style consisting of lines that meet at right angles (5,3)
38. Coloured marking on the collar denoting the rank of a senior or staff officer (3)
40. Roman emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD who was succeeded by his grand-nephew Caligula (8)
42. Car which featured in the 1980s television series Knight Rider (4)
45. Tailless monkey which lives on the Rock of Gibraltar (7)
46. Land which Cain was exiled to after killing his brother (3)
47. Protective item worn by construction workers (4,3)
48. Third largest hydro-electric dam in New Zealand (5)
49. China’s sixth most common surname (4)
50. Word which precedes dead, food and fog (5)
Down
1. Ninth month of the civil year and third of the religious year in the Jewish calendar (5)
2. Country of 3.7 million which suffered a civil war from 1975-1990 (7)
3. Single from Bic Runga’s 1997 album Drive (4)
5. Attack helicopter of the US Air Force since 1986, also used by many other nations (6)
6. Animal featured on Botswana’s coat of arms (5)
7. “The planet will survive . . . whether we get to be here and ___ it is what’s questionable”: Ted Danson (5)
8. 2003 film in which Charlize Theron won a Best Actress Academy Award playing serial killer Aileen Wuornos (7)
9. Knighted art historian who was for several decades part of a Soviet spy group formed at Cambridge University (5)
10. ___ Gish, 1893-1993, actress who started in silent films and was called ‘the first lady of American cinema’ (7)
11. 6th century Irish saint known as Colum Cille, ‘dove of the church’ (7)
17. Irish-born New Zealand poet who wrote God Defend New Zealand (7)
19. Material first made in China around 2000 years ago (5)
20. One of a row of projecting parts on a cogwheel which engage with another cogwheel (5)
21. Basic piece of weightlifting equipment (7)
22. Snail character in the children’s television programme The Magic Roundabout (5)
24. In baseball, a hit which flies low and almost parallel with the ground (5)
25. Japanese multinational conglomerate company founded in 1910 (7)
27. Animal which was the longtime logo of American retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (5)
28. Dressing made from fat and juices exuded from meat during cooking (5)
32. Stage name of Julius Henry Marx, born New York, October 1890 (7)
33. US river which flows into Chesapeake Bay (7)
34. Abdominal muscle on either side of the torso (7)
36. Hindu god of compassion and love (7)
37. Player who scored 322 points for the All Blacks, 2010-2017, and now plays for Montpelier (6)
39. Coronation Street character once married to Steve McDonald (5)
40. “All art is __”: David Shields (5)
41. Member of Abba who was married to Anni-Frid (5)
43. Second-largest moon in the solar system, larger than the planet Mercury (5)
44. Edible crustacean, papaka in Maori (4)