GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across

9. New Zealand’s longest running television series (7,8) 10. Red fox who features in German and French folk tales (7) 12. Entryway in US houses used to store footwear and wet clothing (7) 13. The __ Men, 2014 film starring George Clooney and Matt Damon (9) 14. Exercise surface used by male and female gymnasts (5) 15. Second part of the small intestine between the duodenum and ileum (7) 18. Suburb of southwest Auckland, site of numerous brickworks in the 1870s (3,4) 21. B vitamin used as a supplement by women during pregnancy, __ acid (5) 23. Sunshine, ___ and Rainbows: popular song by American singer Lesley Gore, released in 1963 (9) 25. “Don’t take your toys inside just because it’s __”: Cher (7) 26. The audience reached by television (7) 29. Beatles song which begins: “In the town where I was born” (6,9)

Down

1. Small, undeveloped horn tissue on cattle (4) 2. Woman’s name in the title of a 1969 song by Kenny Rogers (4) 3. Weak or imaginary argument or opponent, who is set up to be easily defeated (5,3) 4. First name of the 36th President of the United States (6) 5. Type of cheese which Samuel Pepys buried in his garden during the Great Fire of London (8) 6. Singer/songwriter and political activist who won the Man of Peace award in 2005 (6) 7. Set of beliefs (8) 8. Sail-driven vessel with three hulls (8) 11. French word for school (5) 15. Welsh baron, 1645-1689, often known as the Hanging Judge (8) 16. Tribe of cats in T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (8) 17. National language of Madagascar (8) 19. Longest serving captain of the All Blacks before Richie McCaw (8) 20. A logarithmic unit of ratio (5) 22. Nickname for either section added to Auckland Harbour Bridge in 1969 (4-2) 24. Basin for washing the hands in a monastery (6) 27. Greek goddess of strife and discord, sister of Ares (4) 28. The bosun on Captain Hook’s ship in JM Barrie’s Peter Pan (4)