GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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11. A gully or dry watercourse, in North America (6)

12. #1..9 9>99.= +1);)+=.; +;.)=., by ventriloquist Shari Lewis in the 1950s (4,4)

13. Hungarian-born Baroness who wrote a series of novels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet

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23. $;),. 6)5. 7/ ) =1.;5794)<=2+ also known as acrylic glass (7)

24. $7@6 26 &);@2+3<12;. @12+18 9;. covid, attracted six million visitors a year (9)

26. )02+)4 /;>2= 26 =1. =2=4. 7/ ) Roald Dahl children’s novel (5)

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31. Nickname for the South African men’s rugby team (4)

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35. Actress who had two children with King Charles II, the elder becoming an earl and later duke (4,4)

40. One-eyed character in the animated TV series Futurama (5)

42. Thin round cakes made with +7;65.)4 7; @1.)= 7>;8 44., @2=1 meat, cheese, beans, etc. (9)

43. One of the hours of the Divine / +.8 )4<7 367@6 )< .?.6260 9;)B.; (7)

44. Country ruled by the Ottomans

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57. Largest waterfalls in the world, on the border of Argentina and Brazil (6)

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5. One of California’s original counties, created in 1850, which now has more than 400 wineries (4)

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8. Person who abandons his or her religious faith or beliefs (8)

9. In Scotland, bodies of fresh or salt water, many created by glaciers (5)

10. The home of Noddy and his friends (7)

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15. Landlocked African country, +)92=)4 20)42 " -

16. Organisation, founded 1945, whose headquarters are at the Place for centuries, then France from de Fontenoy, Paris (6)

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45. Either of the bones which form the whose name is associated with love 47@.; )6, )6=.;27; 9);= 7/ =1. 9.4?2< " - between women (6)

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25. Instruments which measure the distance travelled by wheeled vehicles (9)

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32. #B,6.B =.)5 @12+1 94)B< 26 =1. Australian Football League (5)

33. )4)+. @12+1 1)< *..6 =1. 7/ +2)4 ;.<2,.6+. 7/ ;.6+1 9;.<2,.6=< <26+. 1848 (6)

36. A solid or surface of which at least

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37. Fictional canine character created by novelist Eric Knight (6)

38. A series of interconnected rabbit burrows (6)

39. Kim __, actress who starred with )5.< #=.@);= 26 4/;., 2=+1+7+3 < 1958 thriller Vertigo (5)

41. 2<=7;2+)4 =.;5 /7; .@< @17 42?. outside Israel (8)

42. BBC motoring series which has 1), 5>4=294. /7;5)=< <26+. " 8

46. French word for white (5)

48. Norwegian word for Norway (5)

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52. )9=)26 7/ =1. @1)4260 <129 Pequod in the novel Moby Dick (4)

53. Long-range missiles used by Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War (4)

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