GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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1. Type of plague which killed up to half of Europe’s population in the mid-14th Century (7)
5. Edging of small loops on lace or embroidery (5)
8. Foodstuff eaten by Little Miss Muffet (5)
11. Type of almonds given as wedding favours (7)
12. Decision of a jury at trial (7)
13. Town on Scotland’s west coast where Robert the Bruce held the
14. or chief magistrate in Anglo-Saxon England (5)
15. 1750km river that runs through South Africa and Mozambique (7)
17. ___ Are Burning, song released by Australian band Midnight Oil in 1987 (4)
19. Fourth month on the Hebrew calendar (5)
20. Mountains to the east of Otago’s Wakatipu Basin, crossed by New Zealand’s highest main road (5,5)
24. Currency of Italy from 1861 to 2002 (4)
26. Common name of the python Morelia spilota (6)
29. Elvis Presley’s last studio album, also the title of the lead single from the album (5,4)
30. Symbol of the astrological sign
33. Son of Poseidon in Greek mythology, a king of Tyre (6)
34. Australian cricketer who scored J !$/
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37. ___ Water, one of the smallest lakes in the Lake District, Cumbria (5)
38. J & without interruption (4)
40. First word of the Christmas song Jingle Bells (7)
43. Second largest city in Serbia
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44. Large antelope, native to Africa, with curved horns and a long tufted
45. If You Want to ___ ___, ___ ___: popular song recorded by Cat
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46. Person who uses special powers to predict future events (7)
47. English novelist, author of A Town Like Alice and On The Beach, whose real surname was Norway (5)
48. ! ;
Best Picture and Best Director, and Best Actor for Ernest Borgnine (5)
49. Long locks of a woman’s hair (7)
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Road in London’s Marylebone district, famous as the home of a
a 1978 song (5,6)
2. Typeface named after an 18th Century English printer and type designer (11)
3. “We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we ___ to do it”: Robert Baden-Powell (7)
4. A pain or ailment referred to the heart (7)
5. Word that follows soft and precedes bin (5)
6. Rock and Gravel Slag characters in the Wacky Races cartoon series (7)
7. The trunk of the body (5)
8. City which is home to the largest cinema and music industry in the Arab world (5)
9. Filming a scene or recording a piece of music again (6)
10. Street gang featured in the musical West Side Story (6)
16. Sought by alchemists, a hypothetical cure for all ills (7)
17. Mammals of the family
K < . # Spectacled and Sloth (4)
18. ; ? :. < the highest rank (4)
21. }\ ? # ~~~ but tomorrow is ours to win or lose”: Lyndon B. Johnson (7)
22. ___ Quarter, reclaimed land at the western edge of the Auckland waterfront (7)
23. Copy of a painting, car, gun etc. that is not an original (7)
25. Pungent, colourless gas compound of nitrogen and hydrogen (7)
27. Pedestrian bridge in Paris which was threatened by the weight of thousands of padlocks tourists
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28. Two birds given on the second day of Christmas (6,5)
31. Sister of Zeus, the Greek goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth (4)
32. “A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally ___”: Oscar Wilde (4)
35. Generic term for any very
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36. Territory of northern Canada seven times the area of New Zealand, with a population equivalent to Gisborne (7)
37. Queen Anne’s ___, ship used by Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard (7)
38. River which rises in Turkey and runs for 1750km through Iraq and into the Persian Gulf (6)
39. Southernmost of Japan’s main islands (6)
40. % < $ _ $ wrote The Divine Comedy (5)
41. Female Marvel Comics character able to control weather and atmosphere (5)
42. Given to frivolity; excitable (5)