The Generalist by Didymus

ACROSS

1 Vehicle component manufactured by Bridgestone, Michelin

or Pirelli (6,4)

6 French term for a witticism (3,7)

13 Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa which imposed laws to

fight the monopolistic grain prices in the 1860s and 1870s (7,6) 14 When “spaniel” or “puppy” are used to refer to “dog” (7) 15 Founding member of Take That who supports Port Vale

football club (6,8)

16 One of a series of confrontations between Britain and Iceland

over fishing rights in the North Atlantic (3,3)

18 Dogs that are a cross between a collie and a greyhound (8) 19 Public school sport played in the “Furrow” (4,4,4)

21 The science of the constitution of the universe (11)

23 The third estate, or commonality (5,4)

24 National federation representing 5.5m workers, of which

Frances O’Grady is the current general secretary (6,5,8)

29 ... Arch, the London landmark providing access between The

Mall and Trafalgar Square (9)

31 In the mean time, across the Channel (2,9)

33 Member of the lily family with small, green-tipped and

bell-like flowers (8,4)

35 The football league in which Deveronvale, Strathspey Thistle

and Inverurie Loco Works play (8)

38 A nymph of Mount Ida who prophesied the disastrous voyage

to Greece of her husband, Paris (6)

39 One of the six Brandenburg compositions of JS Bach (8,6) 41 London TV and film studio, from where 12 Down is

broadcast (7)

42 DH Lawrence’s closely autobiographical novel about the

Morel family (4,3,6)

43 Former editor of the Independent who now presents a Sunday

morning BBC political programme (6,4)

44 Fraudulent practices committed by a ship’s crew which

prejudice the owners of the vessel (10)

DOWN

1 British athlete, silver medallist in the 1996 Olympic 400m final behind Michael Johnson and who appeared in the second series of 12 Down (5,5) 2 £1 notes issued between 1914 and 1928 (9)

3 The traditional brickwork pattern laid in alternate

courses of stretchers and headers (7,4)

4 Percy …, presenter of BBC’s Gardener’s World from

1969 until 1976 (7)

5 Surname of the conductor of the CBSO from 1980 to

1998, who is currently music director of the LSO (6)

7 US inventor of the Kodak box camera in 1888 (7) 8 Surname of the author who wrote James and the Giant

Peach, Matilda and Esio Trot (4)

9 Athenian tragedian who wrote Antigone and Electra (9) 10 The Black Riders, the dreaded servants of the Dark

Lord Sauron in Tolkien’s epic (11)

11 Only Asian country completely in the southern

hemisphere (5-5)

12 News presenter Natasha Kaplinsky and her professional partner Brendan Cole won the first series of this BBC Saturday evening show (8,4,7)

17 German painter and sculptor who founded the German

Dada movement in 1918 (3,5)

20 Of vehicle brakes, lacking firmness or responsiveness (6) 22 St Mawes and Portscatho are situated on this Cornish

peninsula on the eastern side of Carrick Roads (8) 23 Bookmakers’ telegraphy using arm signals (6)

25 ... ... Rumpo, Kenneth Williams’s folk singer character

in Round the Horne (8,3)

26 A Scottish vagrant (11)

27 Northern constellation named a er the mother of

Andromeda (10)

28 Stallions kept for breeding (4,6)

30 One who enters into the Gypsy spirit, learning their

language and living as one of them (6,3)

32 The extra month of the Jewish year occurring about

every three years (4,5)

34 Village on Skye from where the ferry to Raasay

departs (7)

36 Appropriate or likely (2,5)

37 Either of the two divisions of a pack of tarot cards (6) 40 The Channel Isle separated from Guernsey by the Little

Russel Channel (4)