GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across 10.

Biblical Jewish holiday known as the Feast of Tabernacles (6)

11. An Italian palace or grand public building (7)

12. Thailand’s name until 1949 (4)

13. Title of a 2004 biographical film, starring Jamie Foxx, about a rhythm and blues legend who died the same year (3)

14. Large animal, Rangifer tarandus, found in arctic, subArctic and mountainous regions (8)

15. __ the Spider: song written by The Who bassist John Entwistle (5)

16. Area of thickened skin on the foot (4)

17. Guessing game that originated in the early 20th Century (1,3)

18. Desert which extends into Mexico, California and Arizona, covering 260,000 sq km (7)

20. In the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, smallholdings worked by a tenant (6)

21. New York mayor who was Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2001 (8)

23. Hidden stockpile of goods or money (5)

24. Snowman character in the 2013 film Frozen (4)

26. Longest nerve of the autonomic nervous system in the human body (5)

27. French Post-Impressionist painter, 1839-1906, whose works include The Card Players and The Bathers (7)

29. Morris Motors’ car which made its debut in 1948 and was affectionally known as the Moggie (5)

32. Resort city on the French Riviera (4)

34. Character played by Philip Michael Thomas in the 1980s TV series Miami Vice (5)

36. Italian appetiser consisting of small pieces of toasted bread with various toppings (8)

38. ___ Bay, seaside resort town on the North Wales coast (6)

39. David ___, guitarist who joined Pink Floyd in 1968 (7)

40. Latin word which Abraham Lincoln popularised by giving it to his dog (4)

41. Coarse hair at the neck of a horse or lion (4)

42. South Africans of Dutch descent, historically an early Dutch inhabitant of the Cape (5)

44. Instrument for measuring the distance travelled by a wheeled vehicle (8)

45. Te __, Wellington suburb which includes Te Papa (3)

46. The skin of an animal, with its fur and wool (4)

47. The indigenous people of the Chatham Islands (7)

48. Groups of fish (6)

Down

1. Greg ____, British/Canadian tennis player who was British No.1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006 (8)

2. New Zealand mobile phone provider which is a division of Spark (6)

3. King who conquered the last Viking kingdom, York, in 927 and became first King of the English (9)

4. The ____, American reality television programme which was hosted by Donald Trump (10)

5. The __, 1958 science-fiction horror film starring Steve McQueen (4)

6. Belarusian tennis player who won the 2012 and 2013 Australian Open (8)

7. Alphabet in which letters are represented by long and short sound signals (5,4)

8. Person who studies the motivation of human behaviour (12)

9. Soft leather made from the skins of sheep that have coarse hairlike wool (8)

19. A practice or trial performance (9)

21. Male name from the late medieval form of Gawain which means ‘white hawk’ (5)

22. Crown used in ancient Greece as a symbol of victory and honour (6,6)

25. Language of Persia, used officially within Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan (5)

28. Large cemetery, near a city, with elaborate monuments (10)

30. Small device that gives off an unpleasant smell (9)

31. Historically, an institution where paupers were housed (9)

33. The third principal period of history, occurring after the Bronze Age (4,3)

35. Panther in Rudyard’s Kipling’s The Jungle Book (8)

37. Name of the 25-year-old, hanged at Melbourne jail in 1880, whose last words were reported to be: “Such is life” (3,5)

40. A muscle whose contraction bends a limb (6)

43. Type of gin, flavoured by fruit of the blackthorn (4)

dogs on Trade Me or elsewhere to check their backgrounds carefully. The exploitation of animals is rife.

H Muller, Wairarapa