GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Across 10.

City state which established a maritime empire in the

title began ‘Most Serene Republic’ (6)

11. Plant of the daisy family grown as a leaf vegetable (7)

12. Australian and New Zealand term for fraud or act of dishonesty (4)

13. Bird of the family Phasianidae, common worldwide (8)

14. “The brain is ___ than the sky”: Emily Dickinson (5)

15. Irish God of the Dead (4)

16. 1960s British youth subculture which was focused on music and fashion (3)

17. Final match or race which will determine the outcome (7)

19. Tiny cup of frothy milk topped with powdered chocolate, made for a child (6)

20. Vascular structure providing oxygen and nutrients to a developing foetus (8)

22. Clause added to an already completed document (5)

23. Artefacts designed to be played with (4)

25. “Politeness is half good manners and half good ___”: Mary Wilson Little (5)

26. Chinese fruit with rough red/ pink shells and sweet white pulp (7)

28. 18th letter of Greek alphabet; also a version of a Mitsubishi car made by Chrysler Australia in the 1970s and 1980s (5)

31. Sum paid for using public transport (4)

33. ___ Gantry: 1960 Burt

who teams up with an evangelist to sell religion to the gullible in 1920s America (5)

35. Surname of a three-time Academy Award winning actor, born London in 1957 (3-5)

37. Bird on the New Zealand twodollar coin (6)

38. Author who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See (5)

39. Car brand whose models include the Compass, Wrangler and Gladiator (4)

40. Large, open farm cart or wagon, which features in one of John Constable’s best-known paintings (4)

41. Band which recorded the theme song to the 1973 James

Live and Let Die (5)

43. Pen name of British veterinary surgeon and author James Alfred Wight (7)

44. Nickname of Ernesto Guevara (3)

45. __ Girl, 2012 crime thriller novel written by Gillian Flynn (4)

46. Various types of railway car, especially those offering beds or special comfort, named after the company which built the carriages (7)

47. held in 1891 (6)

Down

1. of French cuisine (8)

2. “The ___ of the Dribble” and “The Magician”: two of the nicknames given to English football legend Sir Stanley Matthews (6)

3. First name of the titular character in The Vicar of Dibley (9)

4. A society governed by the wealthy (10)

5. Place and pack away cargo and provisions on a ship (4)

6. Collective name for a group of crows (6)

7. American industrialist, 18631947, who said: “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it” (5,4)

8. Title character played by Robin Williams in a 1993 comedy-drama

!

9. Insect commonly known as daddy longlegs (8)

18. The __ __, 2014 New Zealand

Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston (4,5)

20. "cooked in seasoned broth (5)

21. “Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of ____”: Robert Louis Stevenson (12)

24. More than 2700 of these are embedded on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (5)

27. Hormones the body produces to ease pain and give a feeling of well-being (10)

29. Phrase well-known for being the shortest verse in the King James version of the Bible (John 11:35) (5,4)

30. Alternative name for the large sandstone formation known as Uluru to Aboriginals (5,4)

32. Mexico is the largest producer of this fruit, growing about 80 times more than New Zealand (8)

34. American brothers who founded a company in 1940 which still bears their name and has 30,000 outlets in 120 countries (8)

36. The Bourne ___#

$ in 2002 (8)

39. Indian city, capital of Rajasthan, known as the ‘pink city’ (6)

42. Term in the US for a trailer without an axle, towed by a car or truck (4)