GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Pacific islands whose Moriori name is Rekohu (7)

Name of the groundhog in the film Punxsutawney __ (4)

New Zealand plant also known as whiteywood (5)

Nickname of Wellington-based Super 15 rugby team (5)

Small hand tool used when gardening (6)

City, population 2 million, which non-Muslims are prohibited from entering (5)

Common name for sodium chloride (4)

Country whose motto is: “In God we trust” (3)

George __: pen name of French novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) (4)

__ Loo, ragdoll who lived in a picnic basket with Andy Pandy (5)

An angle less than 90 degrees (5)

Backward movement of a gun when it is discharged (6)

Capital city of Cameroon, located 750m above sea level (7)

Boiled/baked doughnutshaped roll (5)

Character who appeared in a children’s television show with 19A (5)

One of the world’s best-selling singers, born Tottenham, London in 1988 (5)

Mythical creatures which the ancient Greeks believed were real and lived in India (8) Hydrocarbon gas produced by fruit when it is ripening (8) Brutal criminal character created by Charles Dickens in (5) Ancient Greek whose stories often featured animals with human traits (5)

Toy dog breed also known as the Chrysanthemum Dog (4,3) ___, 1968 song released by Glen Campbell (7) West African republic, formerly a French colony, which gained independence in 1958 (6)

___ Park, home ground of West Ham United Football Club (5) First name of actresses Page, Pompeo and Burstyn (5)

Toast of Scandinavian origin, said before starting an alcoholic drink (4)

Colour of Mickey Mouse’s shorts (3)

Capital city of Samoa (4) Type of water given to infants to relieve colic (5)

Slow-growing NZ tree, much used for panelling and furniture (4)

Wife of Bobby Ewing in the 19781991 television series (3)

Surname of the lonely character in the title of a 1966 Beatles song (5)

Fixed surveying point or station; many are located on hilltops (4)

Provincial capital of Ontario, Canada’s largest city by population (7)

Former Belgian professional tennis player who won seven Grand Slam titles between 2003 and 2007 (5)

Throw a coin in order to choose between two alternatives (4)

Wacky Races character, sidekick of Dick Dastardly (7)

Italian soft smoked cheese originating in Casilli, near Vesuvius (9)

Stage name of Glasgow’s Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, who represented the UK at the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest (4) 1996 song by The Spice Girls (4) Taylor ___, US film director who has been married to Helen Mirren since 1997 (8)

Hard protective substance covering the crowns on teeth (6)

Crew member of a Russian spacecraft (9)

“Small things __ small minds”: Doris Lessing (5)

__ Armstrong, action figure introduced in 1976 (7)

One of the world’s oldest cities, mentioned in Egyptian records more than 3000 years ago (8)

Baseball team based in New York’s Bronx (7)

Dan Marino played quarterback for this NFL team from 1983-1999 (8)

Australian who founded WikiLeaks in 2006 (7)

Best known title of the William Blake poem (9) “Education’s purpose is to __ an empty mind with an open one”: Malcolm Forbes (7) Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 (3,2,4) Colonel __: elephant leader in the 1967 Disney film

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Largest and newest territory of Canada, created in 1999, governed solely by Inuit (7)

Pickled rhizome often served with sushi (6)

American author, 1783-1859, who wrote and (6) Broken, not in working order (German) (5)

Rodent protagonist of the 2007 Pixar movie (4)

Mild exclamation of annoyance (4)

South Asian term for potatoes, found in the name of several dishes (4)