GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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Biblical opponents whose names are now often used to signify a struggle between an individual or small business against a large corporation (5,3,7)

4. rustica, with a forked tail (7)

8. Junctions made by sewing together the edges of two pieces or cloth, leather, etc (5)

11. Luxury jewellers, founded in London in 1735, who created the sapphire engagement ring for Diana, Princess of Wales (7)

12. See 1

13. See 1

14. Marine mammal with types including baikal, harp and weddell (4)

15. List of a ship’s cargo, provided to

17. chairlift for skiers went into use in 1936 (5)

18. “This royal throne of kings, this ___ isle”: John of Gaunt, in Shakespeare’s Richard II

20. Old name for people who write for a living – copyists, clerks and secretaries (10)

22. Reddish brown colour, also various dessert apple varieties with a rough brown skin (6)

25. ____ Dice: song which was the lead single from the Rolling Stones’ 1972 double album, Exile on Main St

28. First name of the villain in the (5) 29. Chilled drink made with white

30.

32. Portable device to aid vision whose early version was called opera glasses (10)

34. 37. Finely spun, tightly twisted type of

39. Any blade with an edge formed of small sharp notches or projections,

41. Abbreviated name of a Milanbased

car maker which produces the Stelvio, Quadrifoglio and Spider (4)

44. Resembling or characteristic of a fox (7)

45. a medicinal liquor by Benedictine monks in Italy in the 11th Century (3)

46. “It is __ what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the

47. Species of plants of the rose family (geums) (5)

48. John ____, only man to have been Formula 1 and 500cc motorcycle world champion (7)

49. Cavity connecting with the nose (5)

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known for his paintings of dancers (5)

2. Surname of brother and sister fashion designers Gianni and Donatella (7)

3. Type of strong, horse-drawn cart without sides (4)

4. Actor and comedian who appeared in 19 Carry On and 1974 (3,5)

5. Language that the words coffee, guitar, lemon, orange and zero all came from (6)

6. of mud and branches, with an underwater entrance (5)

7. Word from Old English for a mythical sentient being (5)

8. In heraldry, a cross in the shape of an X; also the popular name for

9. canoes which reached Aotearoa (5)

10. In Germany, a castle, palace or manor house (7)

16. In golf, a handicap of zero strokes (7)

18. Inhabitants of the Mediterranean’s second-largest island (5)

19. A message sent using Twitter (5)

20. The shape of fusilli pasta (7) 21.

20cm-150cm in height (5)

23. Nymph who lures sailors onto rocks with enchanting music (5)

24. Seaside resort in Kent, a popular day trip for Londoners (7)

26. song by Prince & The Revolution (5)

27. Product associated with the Venetian island of Murano (5)

31. French renaissance writer and physician whose name is associated with the bawdy jokes and songs he

32. South American country which declared war on Germany in 1943 but took no actual part in World War II (7)

33. List of the most important

35. Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English language and literature who became one of Britain’s greatest authors (7)

36. Member of a native people of the American Central Plains whose tribe is now based in Oklahoma (6)

38. Ointment applied externally to soothe and heal an irritation (5)

39. Domed beehives made of twisted straw or wicker (5)

40. Acknowledgement that a radio message has been received and understood (5)

42. Breed of Scottish cattle that can be either black or red (5)

43. Mammals with types including Kitti’s, hog-nosed and hammerheaded (4)