GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across

1. “The game’s afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge, Cry ‘God for __, England, and Saint George’!”: Shakespeare (5)

4. Design which can be transferred on to another surface (5)

7. Large, strong-clawed marine crustacean with five sets of legs (7)

11. Ursus arctos horribilis, a subspecies of the North American brown bear (7)

12. The body’s only internal organ that can regenerate itself (5)

13. Town on Scotland’s Firth of Clyde, scene of a 1263 battle between Scottish and Norwegian armies (5)

14. Traditional term for the period from December 24 to January 6 (4)

15. Word that can precede circle, peace and voice (5)

16. The Three ___: rock formation in the Blue Mountains at Katoomba, whose name comes from an Aboriginal legend (7)

18. Artistic work which imitates the style of another (8)

19. Italian word for ‘beautiful’, also used as a female name (5)

21. Piece of equipment used to secure a tent to the ground (3,4)

23. Patron saint of multiple countries including Scotland, Barbados, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia and Greece (6)

25. Orange-coloured Dr Seuss character with a yellow moustache (5)

27. Large duck native to Mexico and South America but named after a European country (7)

28. Culinary and medicinal herb of the mint family (5)

29. Parachute designed to be deployed from a fast-moving object (6)

30. Flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships (7)

33. Take an exam again (5)

35. English rock band originally named Starfish (8)

38. Dense group of bushes or trees (7)

40. New Zealand film producer and screenwriter whose works include King Kong and The Lovely Bones (5)

41. The distance between two intermediate supports of a bridge (4)

44. Collection of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible (5)

45. Ido __, former Shortland Street actor who also played Detective Justin Harding in the NZ TV series The Gulf (5)

46. An emblem of victory dating back to ancient Greece (7)

47. Largest city of Myanmar (6)

48. The trail left by an animal (5)

49. ___ Springfield, stage name of Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien (5)

Down

1. Traditional dwelling used by the Navajo people (5)

2. NFL team, three-time Superbowl champions, now based in Las Vegas but previously in Oakland, then Los Angeles (7)

3. Boat-shaped harp used in ancient Tamil music (4)

4. “The only thing a golfer needs is more ___”: Ben Hogan (8)

5. Collective name for a group of ants (6)

6. Good Old Fashioned __ __, song released by Queen in 1977 (5,3)

7. Upper class character in UK comic The Beano who appeared in the first issue in 1938 (4,6)

8. Domesticated animals associated with a Hungarian red wine (5)

9. New Zealand term for a road, or road surface, made using tarmacadam or tar (7)

10. “Great deeds are usually wrought at great ___”: Herodotus (5)

17. Ring used to keep a person afloat (8)

18. Building material containing gypsum, lime and cement (7)

19. Capital city located at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers (8)

20. “___ is the hand maiden of creativity”: T.S. Eliot (7)

22. A family member; also, in North America, a word used when submitting to an opponent (5)

24. Meaning of ‘sec’ on a wine bottle (3)

26. Slang term for a toupee (3)

27. Number which indicates the relative size of an earthquake (9)

31. Commercial fishing vessels (8)

32. Informal term for a speleologist (8)

34. Patron saint of Winchester Cathedral, best known for a rhyme predicting that if it rains on his feast day, it will rain for 40 days (7)

36. Long-handled cutting tool used to prune bushes and trees (7)

37. One of the three Fates in Greek mythology (6)

38. State of agitation and confusion (colloq) (5)

39. English theatre impresario credited with inventing the custardpie-in-the-face gag (5)

42. “Let’s not be narrow, __, and negative”: T.S. Eliot (5)

43. South African runner who represented Britain at the 1984 Olympics, and who usually raced barefoot (4)