GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across

10. Matter in the form of a tenuous fluid, either as a gas or as minute droplets in the air (6)

11. Open portico alongside the outside of a building (7)

12. Large water jug whose name is a French derivation of a Latin word (4)

13. Norse god of single combat, law and justice, who had a day of the week named after him (3)

14. German poet and dramatist, 1759-1805 (8)

15. Painful, involuntary muscle contraction (5)

16. One of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing (4)

17. House of __-Coburg and Gotha: German dynasty whose British branch changed its name to Windsor in 1917 (4)

18. Japanese multinational engineering and electronics company (7)

20. A type of yarn, and the fabric made from it (6)

21. First British Prime Minister (in office 1922-23) to be born outside the British Isles (5,3)

23. “It is ____ because I wish it”: Louis XIV, the Sun King (5)

24. Send goods unsaleable in a home market for sale at a lower price on a foreign market (4)

26. Inhabitant of the USA’s 30th most populous state, admitted to the Union in 1846 (5)

27. Compound of bromine (7)

29. Chinese car brand owned by Great Wall (5)

32. Flat, thonged Japanese sandals originally made of straw (4)

34. French word for rabbit (5)

36. Process in which the radioactive fuel in a nuclear reactor overheats and is released into the environment (8)

38. The combination of two or more commercial companies (6)

39. “Children are educated by what the __ __ is and not by his talk”: Carl Jung (5,2)

40. One of the abbreviations for the English county Gloucestershire (4)

41. In music, a smooth or legato effect (4)

42. ___ Landing, American soap opera which was a spin-off from the Dallas series (5)

44. Bookplate showing the name of the owner (2,6)

45. Adam’s __: colloquialism for water (3)

46. Acronym for the British airline which merged with two other stateowned airlines in 1974 to create British Airways (4)

47. Fictional village where Rupert Bear and his family lived (7)

48. American author whose works include The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain (6)

Down 1.

American professional boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1952 to 1956 (8)

2. Known as the sweetest pear variety (6)

3. Excavation in the ground made for exploratory purposes (9)

4. Figurative place of retreat from the world and its harsh realities (5,5)

5. Greek god of war (4)

6. One step in the process of breadmaking (8)

7. Vehicle which transports the Caped Crusader and Robin (9)

8. Canadian dog breed originally used as working dogs for fishermen (12)

9. Military standard or banner of a maniple (sub unit) in a Roman legion (8)

19. Glossy, worsted fabric of the 18th and 19th centuries (9)

21. The Ballroom ___: 1973 song by British glam rock band The Sweet (5)

22. Christian hymn written in 1779 by Anglican clergyman John

Newton, formerly a sailor involved in the slave trade (7,5)

25. Governor of Alaska who was John McCain’s presidential running mate in 2008 (5)

28. In music, term meaning ‘gradually decreasing in volume’ (10)

30. A reporter for the fictional Daily Planet (5,4)

31. British and American term for jandals (4,5)

33. Hotel which features in Stephen King’s 1977 novel The Shining (8)

35. Family servant in Charles Dickens’s 1850 novel David Copperfield (8)

37. Fictional town which appears in Horton Hears a Who and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (8)

40. Large wire cages filled with rocks, used in civil engineering and landscaping (6)

43. In cricket, an unrestrained attacking stroke, using power instead of technique (4)