GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Across 1.
City where the American Civil War started in 1860, when Confederate forces took Fort Sumter from the Union forces occupying it (10)
6. Part of the White House that
10.
80s hits by Def Leppard, Poison, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett and others (4,2,4)
11. First name of the character played by Katie Leung in the Harry
12. Variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, popular in Creole and Indian cooking (6)
15. “Art is made to ___, science reassures”: George Braque (7)
17. The future of Thursday’s child, according to the nursery rhyme (3,2,2)
18. Norwegian writer of crime novels about detective Harry Hole (2,5)
19. Welsh composer and actor who had annual songwriting awards named after him in 1955 (7)
22. “Friends, ____, countrymen, lend me your ears”: Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (6)
25. Second oldest of the Pevensie children in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (5)
27. “____ company is as bad as
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30. Small food store selling ready-toeat foods, especially cooked meats and cheeses (4)
31. 1936 painting by artist Rita Angus, showing an inland Canterbury railway station (4)
32. 19th Century Scottish author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped (9)
34. “He who pays the ___ calls the tune”: proverb (5)
37. Terrace behind one of the goals > / / ? & < ground (3,3)
41. Musical indication to play a piece quickly (7)
43. Nickname of the Salvation Army (7)
44. Senior NZ Cabinet role, often held by the Deputy Prime Minister (7)
45. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing ___”: Leo Tolstoy (7)
48. Person who samples food/drink for its quality (6)
51. American television series which follows the work of forensic scientists (3)
52. Italian Baroque painter, 1571-1610, named after a town in Lombardy (10)
53. The length of time Lady Jane Grey was queen of England, in July 1553 (4,4)
54. Head housekeeper at Manderley in Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca (3,7)
Down 1.
A crossbearer in a religious procession (8)
2. Form of written communication which became popular because of its use during World War II (8)
3. X access in response to a crisis (8)
4. Highest mountain in Wales at 1085m, 43rd highest in Britain (after 42 Scottish mountains) (7)
5. Part of a day in the title of two Shakespeare plays (5)
6. “Nobody can give you ___ advice than yourself”: Marcus Tullius Cicero (5)
7. [ % / London and Belfast (4)
8. Golf club with a bulky head, used for distance (4)
9. Dogs bred for coursing game and racing (10)
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14. | + % + within each other (5)
16. Oldest member of the pop group ABBA (5)
20. At exactly the right moment (2,3) & / "
21. “Trust is the ___ thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back”: R.M. Williams (7)
23. Flexible band used by females to hold hair back (5)
24. Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth (4)
26. Agency which Ilya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo worked for in a 1960s TV series (5)
28. Word which precedes stripping, management and register (5)
29. Shade or variety of a colour (4)
30. A sworn testimony under oath (10)
33. “Take out the papers and the __, or you don’t get no spending cash”: Yakety Yak, The Coasters (5)
35. Short-sleeved open-necked casual shirts, typically of a knitted cotton fabric (5)
36. River where the water-nymphs Woglinde, Wellgunde and Flosshilde live, in a Richard Wagner opera (5)
38. Miss _____, child-hating head of the orphanage in Annie (8)
39. Nursery rhyme monarch (4,4)
40. In Tolkien’s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings stories, Gollum’s term for the One Ring (8)
42. A remark made without previous thought (7)
46. Small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear (5)
47. Watery liquid that separates from coagulating blood (5)
49. The god of forests and birds, son of Ranginui and Papatuanuku (4)
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