GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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On bagpipes, the pipe 2%/$ 7)# ,$*' . *) 2$% $ /$ melody is played (7)

5. “Marry in __, repent at leisure”: old adage (5)

8. Male name of Greek origin, meaning royal or kingly (5)

11. In Wales or Ireland, a small, round wickerwork boat propelled with a paddle (7)

12. 1%)# )* !*, 5 3 or cogency, especially in law (7)

13. Dessert consisting of fruit in sugar syrup (7)

14. The third deadly sin, as listed by Pope Gregory I in 590 (7)

16. Surname of the 41st and 43rd US Presidents (4)

18. Local navigator who steers a ship in or out of port (5)

19. Country, created in 1948, whose earlier version was occupied by Japan from 1910 to 1945 (5,5)

23. Malaysian climbing palm used to make wickerware (6)

25. World’s largest food company, founded in Vevey, Switzerland in 1866 (6)

28. Disentangle, get free of a complicated situation (9)

29. 1973 single by David Bowie which starts: “With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue” (6)

32. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and __ all doubt”: Unknown (6)

33. 3+ *! '%#$/ 7//%)# 2$*. name comes from the French for candle (10)

36. Brand of sherry, begun in the 19th Century by British businessman Robert Byass (5)

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39. Nomadic tribes who live -

44. One of two or more atoms with the same atomic number

0/ 2%/$ % , )/ )0( , *! neutrons (7)

45. Synthetic fabric named after the two cities in which it was developed (5)

46. “When a man is __ of London, he is __ of life”: Samuel Johnson (5)

47. In the act of being born or coming into existence (7)

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1. Musical genre which includes the works of Gilbert and Sullivan (5,6)

2. Bet placed on a series of events, with winnings carried over from one to the next (11)

3. The number of people who vote in an election (7)

4. Childhood disease caused 3 1%/ (%) 7 % ) 3 " -

5. African scavenger/predator with four species (5)

6. Plant of the goosefoot family cultivated for its edible dark green leaves (7)

7. Short stanza at the end of a poem (5)

8. The lowest internal portion of a ship’s hull (5)

9. 044' 2$% $ 7,./ ++ , in the late 1970s and became popular in the 2000s (6)

10. Coarse sponge made from in and around Middle Eastern the fruit of a tropical gourd, deserts (7) used to scrub the skin (6)

42. The tongue or striking part 15. 0 '% * % ' 2$* of a bell (7) investigates any death not due

43. Two successive lines of to natural causes (7) verse, usually of the same 16. Fish known as hapuka, length (7) $ +0&0 *, #,*+ , %) " -

17. British singer-songwriter whose biggest hit was Kiss from a Rose (4)

20. A resonant and impressive voice (7)

21. ) ( % %) 5 /%)# *, applied to a particular part of the body (7)

22. Form of entertainment whose Japanese name means ‘empty orchestra’ (7)

24. Musical genre which includes Duran Duran and Depeche Mode (3,4)

26. Lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere (11)

27. ! /3 1% 7,./ 7// /* an aircraft in 1940 (7,4)

30. Slender, double reed woodwind instrument (4)

31. Grain of the grass Oryza sativa, a major world cereal (4)

34. Circle around the planet whose plane is perpendicular to the Earth’s axis (7)

35. North American mammal, noted for its intelligence (7)

36. Goat-like antelope found in the mountains of Europe and Asia (7)

37. Line over a vowel, e.g. *,% " -

38. Word, dating to the early 14th Century, for a mischievous person (6)

39. Name for a bear, especially in children’s stories (5)

40. City in the Netherlands known for its blue and white pottery (5)

41. In Greek mythology, a river nymph (5)