GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Across
10. 1983 hit for New Zealander Sharon O’Neill (6)
11. Sheltered anchorage for ships (7)
12. Football team based in Amsterdam, winner of the Dutch league 35 times (4)
13. Home planet of television character Mork (3)
14. Underground part of an amphitheatre, or a subterranean tomb (8)
15. Chess pieces which are askaris in Arabic, pions in French and pedones in Italian (5)
16. Place where the Israelites camped after crossing the Red Sea, described as being between Marah and the Wilderness of Sin (4)
17. Dutch portrait artist (c.15821666) best known for Laughing Cavalier (4)
18. American social networking service whose logo is a blue bird (7)
20. Headgear by which a horse is controlled (6)
21. Open-faced club used by golfers for getting out of a bunker (4,4)
23. 19th Century Hungarian composer regarded as one of the great pianists (5)
24. Weapon of war described by H G Wells in a 1903 short story, 13 years before it was used in battle (4)
26. Lead vocalist of heavy metal group Motorhead (5)
27. Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, first settled around 9000 years ago (7)
28. Defame in print (5)
31. Boy’s name which is part of the NATO phonetic alphabet (4)
33. Title of a 2001 boxing film in which Will Smith plays the title role (3)
34. “It is quality rather than ___ that matters”: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BCE-65AD) (8)
36. New Zealand songbird with dark bluish grey feathers (6)
37. First name of archbishop Tutu and actor Llewelyn, who played Q in 17 Bond films (7)
38. Film-making brothers Joel and Ethan (4)
39. A man-made embankment or dam, a term which spread from India (4)
40. ___ Boy Child, Christmas song written in 1956 (5)
42. Doctor Livingstone, __
__: famous greeting made by explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1,7)
43. Italian greeting (4)
44. __ __ and Sixpence, 1919 novel by W. Somerset Maugham (3,4)
45. 1964 song by Bobby Vinton which was a 2005 hit for Akon, reaching No.1 in New Zealand, and then for Justin Bieber in 2020 (6)
Down
1. Giant rodent native to South America (8)
2. ____ peak, v-shaped point in the hairline at the centre of the forehead (6)
3. Collection of plays, ballets, operas etc. performed by a company on a regular schedule (9)
4. Type of edible mushroom (10)
5. Technician in the film industry, either moving scenery or as part of a camera crew (4)
6. Boarding school in the Scottish Highlands attended by Harry Potter (8)
7. Destruction of tissue caused by exposure to severe cold (9)
8. Area in northwest England designated as a National park in 1951 (4,8)
9. Breed of toy spaniel originating in France (8)
19. Large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessels (4,5)
21. Talking black cat in the television series Sabrina the Teenage Witch (5)
22. Novel by Charles Dickens, centred on a frustrated shipping owner who has no son to pass his business on to (6,3,3)
25. Usually listed as the second most common Irish surname, after Murphy (5)
29. American rock band formed in 1970 and still active, led by Steven Tyler (9)
30. Long, narrow flag with a cleft end, fastened to a masthead (9)
32. Indigenous people of North America also known as people of the Six Nations (8)
33. Islands to the east of the Coromandel peninsula (8)
34. The ‘Q’ in IQ (8)
35. Rising currents of warm air (8)
38. American aircraft designer and aviator who founded an aircraft corporation in 1927 (6)
41. In cricket, a vigorous and unrestrained attacking stroke (4)