GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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New Zealander who won Best Director at the 2022 Academy Awards (7)

4. Surname shared by British actress Emily and British art historian and Soviet spy Anthony (5)

7. State in north-eastern India; the world’s largest tea-producing area (5)

10. Traditional gift to celebrate a third wedding anniversary (7)

11. Peninsula in Mexico where a giant asteroid hit 66m years ago, ending the age of the dinosaurs (7)

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14. Doris ___, British novelist and playwright awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature (7)

16. English singer and actress known as “The Forces’ Sweetheart” during World War II (4)

18. Irish female name meaning bright or radiant, after a goddess in Irish mythology (5)

20. Elephant-headed Hindu god of wisdom and prophecy (6)

24. Princess in the Shakespeare play Cymbeline (6)

25. English actor, musician and comedian who played the lead role in the TV series House (6)

28. Largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, shared by Croatia, Slovenia and Italy (7)

29. Sodium’s number in the Periodic Table (6)

33. Semi-nomadic people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania (6)

34. Polish-American pianist, 18871982, who gave his last concert aged 89 (10)

37. First name of the main character in the Pokemon animated series (3)

38. Cold north-easterly wind that blows from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea (4)

40. Joint between a horse’s cannon bone and great pastern (7)

43. London suburb, home to the Royal Hospital, which houses 300 former British Army soldiers (7)

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47. Game of skill with versions including eight-ball, straight and bank (4)

48. !+' % # -$ % Macrouridae, also called the grenadier (3-4)

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Emperor from 306 to 337 AD who

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3. 14th largest US state, admitted to the Union in 1890 (5)

4. Popular mineral in a diversity of colours whose green variety is the emerald (5)

5. Novel by Irish writer James Joyce, published 1922 (7)

6. Stanley __, actor who starred in The Lovely Bones and Julie & Julia (5)

7. Each of the main divisions of a play (3)

8. (' % - #& tournament is usually played (6)

9. Vertical shaft through a glacier carved by meltwater from the surface (6)

13. __ Days Are Over: 2008 single by Florence and the Machine (3)

15. $% % % ! # %% % stairs, supporting the handrail (5)

16. Hawaiian feast or party with traditional food and entertainment (4) made Inception (2010), Interstellar 17. Edible seaweed formed into (2014) and Dunkirk (2017) (5) sheets and used in the preparation

45. Triangular piece of wall at the end of sushi (4) of a ridged roof, between the eaves 19. Early versions of this garden tool and summit (5) were in use 2500 years ago (3)

46. The dead court jester in 21. Actress who was married to Brad Shakespeare’s Hamlet (6) Pitt from 2000 to 2005 (7)

22. , - $ # & % % of New Zealand climber Rob Hall in 1996 (7)

23. Traditional Japanese portable charcoal stove used to grill food (7)

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27. English nurse who was executed for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium during World War I (5,6)

30. Spanish/Portuguese for wolf, especially the Mexican and Iberian wolf (4)

31. British detective TV series starring Brenda Blethyn (4)

32. “We should be too big to take offense and too __ to give it”: Abraham Lincoln (5)

35. Eighth astrological sign in the zodiac, represented by an insect sent by Gaia to kill Orion (7)

36. Isolated chain of islands in the eastern Indian Ocean across the Bay of Bengal (7)

37. Singer/songwriter whose surname is Adkins, but is known by

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39. Type of bean, phaseolus coccineus, whose vine can grow up to nine metres in length (6)

40. __ acid: B vitamin essential for cell growth and reproduction (5)

41. Major river in northern England ' '$ % % #% " )

42. Traditional Jewish baked pudding or casserole made from potatoes or egg noodles (5)

‘‘unrealistic’’, ‘‘utterly impractical’’ or ‘‘head-in-theclouds’’.

They don’t seem to understand that every party has an ‘‘ideology’’. It’s what they believe in. If elected, National promises to repeal most of Labour’s legislation, on climatechange mitigation for example. Thus National, by applying its ‘‘ideology’’, will hasten the destructive effects of climate change on all of us.

I know which party’s ‘‘ideology’’ I believe is worth voting for. But then, I know what ‘‘ideology’’ means.