GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across

1. Protective packaging material, invented in 1957 by two engineers who intended it to be textured wallpaper (6,4)

5. Pet ___, 1983 horror novel by Stephen King (8)

9. Lophophanes cristatus, bird widespread throughout central and northern Europe (7,3)

12. Stage name of actor Laurence Tureaud, who played B.A. Baracus in the 1980s television series The A-Team (2,1)

13. Person whose role was

locomotives and watertender by the US Navy (6)

16. “True love stories never have ____”: Richard Bach (7)

19. Grapes which have been partially dried (7)

20. City where children’s author

to school (7)

21. Variety of mandarin orange (7)

24. The ____, weekly medical journal founded in 1823 (6)

27. Wat __, a leader of the 1381 Peasants Revolt in England (5)

29. Term used for any great artist from around the 1450s to 1800 (3,6)

32. Italy’s third largest island, Napoleon’s place of exile from 1814-1815 (4)

33. Chemical element with the symbol Pb (4)

34. “Let no one ___ of geometry enter my doors”: Plato (9)

36. English footballer who is the only man to have scored a hat-trick in a % &' *+

38. Layer of connective tissue below the skin (6)

42. Turkish ___, jellied candy

/ ; * +

45. Change to a higher standard of service or equipment (7)

47. The temporary interception of light from a celestial object (7)

48. Bucharest is the capital of this southeastern European country (7)

51. Indonesian soybean product 56. Musical accompaniment to a music (10)

Down 1.

Residence used by the British royal family for summer holidays since 1848 (8)

2. Camel with two humps on its back (8)

3. $< = a detective who becomes involved with an Amish community (7)

4. ____ Smith, American singersongwriter whose most widely known song is Because The Night (5)

6. Second planet to be visited by a spacecraft from Earth, in 1965 (4)

7. Traditional Mexican dish of a

'' # eaten by hand (4)

8. Catchphrase from The Apprentice television franchise (5,5)

10. Of or pertaining to a horse or horses (6)

11. Attach a label to an item for sale, or to an animal (3)

14. Pack of 78 playing cards with

;

15th Century (5)

15. Major source of food for baleen whales (5)

17. Signal used in Morse Code (3)

18. Series of musical notes, usually within an octave (5) bound into cake form (6) 22. World’s longest mountain chain,

54. American rock band, founded stretching almost 7000km (5) 1967, whose lead vocalist was Iggy 23. Bantu language spoken by more Pop (3,7) than 150 million people (7)

55. US golfer who was Rookie of 25. > # ? the Year in 1962, going on to win 72 various kinds, especially the quahog PGA titles (8) (5)

26. __ Suck: Arkansas settlement voted to have the US’s most unfortunate town name in a 2012 poll (4)

28. Part of eggs used when making custard (5)

30. Word which denotes a point scored in a fencing contest (5)

31. Ancient type of knot, also known as a Hercules knot (4)

32. “I’ve got a great ambition to die of ____ rather than boredom”: Thomas Carlyle (10)

35. "to make bedcovers (5)

37. Word that follows rag and precedes union (5)

39. __ __ Long, song by Lionel Richie released in 1983 (3,5)

40. Evergreen shrub with glossy, leathery leaves, found in Australasia (8)

41. Acid that gives vinegar its distinctive taste (6)

43. 70% of the UK’s production of this spirit comes from Scotland (3)

44. Woman’s dress which became popular in the mid-19th Century, worn for entertaining at home (3,4)

46. Nickname of the US state of Idaho: The __ State (3)

49. > F ? F explorer who walked to his death in a blizzard in March 1912 (5)

50. Species of plants of the rose family (geums) (5)

52. President of the United States, 1845-1849, who extended US territory after winning the MexicanAmerican War (4)

53. New Zealand bird made extinct by hunting and deforestation, last sighted in 1907 (4)