GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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Surname of the Somali-born British runner who won the 5000m and 10,000m at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics (5)

4. Alexander ___, Hungarian

maker to be knighted (5)

7. Having the shape of a spiral (7)

11. Alexander ___, British fashion designer (1969-2010) who had his own label and was chief designer at Givenchy (7)

12. ___ Flow, base in the Orkney Islands for Britain’s Grand Fleet during World War I (5)

13. Name now commonly used for the ‘Croup and Pneumonia Salve’ invented by pharmacist Lunsford Richardson in 1891 (5)

14. Ground dwelling bird associated with wetlands and whose family includes crakes and coots (4)

15. Female name which comes from Latin and can mean youthful, beautiful or vivacious (5)

16. Vegetables which feature in the title of a 1909 music hall song along with boiled beef (7)

18. ___ for the Devil, song released by the Rolling Stones in 1968 (8)

19. Type of minds that think alike (5)

21. Girl who, in a Paul Simon song, is “breaking my heart/You’re

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23. North American grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut (6)

24. Beds on a ship or train (5)

26. Mr Bones character in the traditional children’s card game Happy Families (7)

27. Sancho ___, a squire in the early 17th Century novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (5)

28. Small oil-rich nation on the island of Borneo (6)

29. Piece of turned wood used as a baluster (7)

32. Creature from the planet

[ television series Doctor Who (5)

34. Foul-smelling insect with

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37. |} ~+  {€ of Simon & Garfunkel’s song The Boxer (4,3)

39. Word which precedes calendar and eclipse (5)

40. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus red (4)

43. A mass-produced copy of a photograph or painting (5)

44. The Big __, British street

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45. ____ End, 1910 novel by E.M. Forster (7)

46. A plait of braided hair (7)

47. In music, a note raised a semitone above natural pitch (5)

48. Narrow steep-sided valleys in Scotland (5)

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1. Longest and strongest bone in the body (5)

2. Religious ceremony performed as a memorial to a deceased person (7)

3. Area of a golf club at the bottom of the shaft (4)

4. Shakespeare play about the son of Henry II and father of Henry III (4,4)

5. “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at

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6. Member of a university or other institution; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits (8)

7. Type of halter for leading or tying up a horse (10)

8. Organ essential for ridding the body of toxic substances (5)

9. Surname of singer Madonna (7)

10. Models of the foot, used by a shoemaker while making or repairing footwear (5)

17. Protective cover for the nose and mouth (8)

18. Having alternating or varying bands of colour (7)

19. Capital city of Botswana (8)

20. Room devoted to the sampling of wine (7)

22. Program which replaced Lotus 1-2-3 in the 90s as the industry standard for spreadsheets (5)

25. Anais ___, French-CubanAmerican writer of short stories (1903-1977) (3)

26. < „ [ created by Dorothy Wall (6,4)

30. … a patient’s blood when the kidneys are damaged (8)

31. Specialist Auckland hospital which opened in 1991 (8)

33. Through the ___ Glass: sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (7)

35. Two-cornered hat worn by Napoleon Bonaparte (7)

36. First name of Lansbury and Rippon (6)

37. Temporary retail outlet or restaurant (3-2)

38. Prime Minister (1978-1984) J (1984-1989) of South Africa (5)

41. Measured portions of medicine (5)

42. Curtain hung in folds at a window (4)