GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across 1.

Defensive position in gridiron football, covering opposition runners or covering passes (10)

6. Lunar crater on the moon named after an astronaut killed when Apollo 1’s command module caught fire in 1967 (7)

10. Brothers who were the first to both score a try for the All Blacks in the same match (5)

11. Great ape whose name means ‘man of the forest’ (9)

13. Monetary value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given time period (abbr) (3)

14. Lake in Staffordshire, England after which John and Alice Kipling named their son in 1865 (7)

15. One of the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (6)

17. __ Leith, chef and cookery writer, judge on the The Great British Bake Off (4)

18. Man-made lake on the Clutha River which provides irrigation for orchards and vineyards (7)

19. Focal point of earthquake (9)

23. A short impromptu fight between small groups of enemy forces (8)

27. Unable to hear anything (5,4)

29. Fishing boat owned by Ernest Hemingway; also the Spanish and Portuguese word for pillar (5)

30. Common yellow-flowered plant whose leaves are used as salad greens (9)

31. Emperor of Japan who took the throne in 2019 (8)

34. Main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh (5,4)

36. ‘A’ – You’re ___: song whose best-known version was recorded by Perry Como in 1949 (8)

39. Depiction of the human body associated with ancient Greek and Roman art (4)

41. Women’s hosiery first sold commercially in 1940 (6)

44. ___ Femmes, Milwaukee folk punk band, active since 1980 (7)

46. Word which precedes horn and hockey (3)

47. Proverb: more haste, ___ ___ (4,5)

48. Region of Turkey whose islands were colonised by Greeks more than 2000 years ago (5)

49. Danny’s best friend and Rizzo’s boyfriend in the 1978 film Grease (8)

50. Temporary structure made by children at the beach (10)

Down

1. Police inspector who appears in several Sherlock Holmes stories (8)

2. Inhabitant of the USA’s ‘Silver State’ (7)

3. Ancient Dutch breed of chicken, named after a historic region of Belgium and the Netherlands (9)

4. London suburb which had the UK’s only international airport in the 1920s and 1930s (7)

5. Bishop ranking between a patriarch and a metropolitan in the Orthodox church (6)

6. Ancient people of what is now Bulgaria and Romania (5)

7. Island where St Columba founded a monastery in 563 and where many of Scotland’s early kings are buried (4)

8. ____ glider, small nocturnal possum (5)

9. Ice-hockey team based in Toronto (5,5)

12. American actor whose final film was The Misfits, released posthumously in 1961 (5)

16. Surname of an Irish-born British painter (1909-1992), an actor from the film Footloose, and an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I (5)

20. Ancient city in Jordan, the country’s biggest tourist attraction (5)

21. The UK’s third-longest river (5)

22. Chinese dynasty from 221-206 BC (4)

24. South Park character who wears an orange parka (5)

25. The ___, novel which won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction (7)

26. Device on which thread, tape or film can be wound (5)

27. Shark species with a large second dorsal fin, found worldwide (4)

28. Mountains in the northeast of New York state (10)

32. Reed instrument also known as a mouth organ (9)

33. A period of unusually hot weather (8)

35. Girl’s name of French/English origin (6)

37. “United we stand, ___ we fall”: Aesop (7)

38. Type of French deep-fried pastry (7)

40. Character in the 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella, made famous by a British new wave band (5)

42. Nintendo dinosaur character (5)

43. Tuscan city, start and finish point for the Strade Bianche cycle race (5)

45. Group of countries, groups or individuals who support a particular interest (4)