GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Glacial lake in the Mackenzie Basin, close to a 3+*; &,% 0' 4)& 3!.& /!.& " -
11. Volcanic ocean island, '4) ,!2(&34 0' 4)& 3&6&/ .!*/ Canary Islands (2,5)
12. Song released by Spandau Ballet in April 1983 (4)
13. Village in the English Lake District where the poet Wordsworth lived for 14 years (8)
14. Order of ___: award established by Edward VII in 1902, which can have only 24 living recipients (5)
15. The eldest sister in Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters (4)
16. : song released by The Jam in November 1979 (4)
17. Author who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (5)
19. Composer who married Constanze Weber in 1782 (6)
20. &7 &!,!/% $*49 7)*$) hosts the annual One Love music festival (8)
22. Incy Wincy spider climbed up it (10)
24. Cape ___: Bay of Islands’ peninsula with a lighthouse at the eastern end (5)
25. African animal which was called the camelopard by ancient Romans (7)
27. Projection at the end of a 1*&$& 0' 700% 7)*$) 43 */40 ! mortise to form a joint (5)
30. Shakespeare play featuring the characters Prospero, Miranda and
Ferdinand (3,7)
33. Flowering stem of various plants of the lily family, with #&,,;3)!1&% 07&23 " -
35. Triangle where one of the internal angles is greater than 90 (6)
38. American corporation 7)*$) $2&!4&% 4)& 234 commercially available microprocessor in 1971 (5)
40. Royal house of Germany which ruled the Holy Roman Empire for 300 years (8)
41. Written record of events on the voyage of a ship or plane (3)
42. 2&3)7!4&2 $912*/*% 3) 0' northern Eurasia, Leuciscus idus, with golden and silver varieties (4)
43. Whangarei suburb, location of the city’s airport (7)
44. Name under which musician Richard Starkey became famous in the 1960s (5)
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1. Village on the Coromandel peninsula between Whangamata and Waihi Beach (8)
2. 500km-long river which is a boundary between New Jersey and New York (6)
3. Title of a 2006 single and !,#5. #9 &7 &!,!/% 3*/(&2 Brooke Fraser (9)
4. Cocktail made from vodka, rum, curacao, sweet and sour mix and pineapple juice (4,6)
5. Canned, pre-cooked meat introduced in 1937 (4)
36. Freshwater diving bird 6. Woodwind instrument which of the family Podicipedidae Johann Christoph Denner is 7)*$) #5*,%3 ! 0!4*/( /&34 credited with inventing in the concealed among reeds (5) late 17th Century (8)
37. European capital city 7. Largest city by population which entirely surrounds an in the state of Maryland, 30th independent country (4) largest in the United States (9)
8. Type of Italian pasta known as ‘priest choker’ (12)
9. 4158m mountain in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps,
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18. English football club controversially sold to Saudi Arabian owners in 2021 (9)
20. Asian country known as the ‘Roof of the World’ (5)
21. 2007 animated movie about an ambitious young rodent called Remy (11)
23. */$! 4*/$!8 '2&3)7!4&2 3) of Europe and Asia (5)
26. German physicist best known for inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and a temperature scale (10)
28. Contagious skin infection common in children (8)
29. English cathedral which has the world’s oldest working clock (1386) and one of the four original copies of the Magna Carta (9)
31. Very hot chilli pepper, rated 100,000-350,000 on the Scoville scale (8)
32. Number of players on the &,% '02 !/ 5342!,*!/ 5,&3 football team (8)
34. Song from the Broadway musical Annie (8)
37. Flemish painter, 1577-1640, knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England (6)
39. !6*% 8 2*4*3) ,. director who won Oscars for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (4)