MoS General Knowledge Crossword No. 2
by Medusa

Across

Chinese revolutionary leader who founded the Nationalist party in 1894 (3,3-3)
Constellation also known as Ursa Major (5,4)
12 Former teletext service of the I.B.A. (6)
13 Capital of Tibet (5)
14 Upper part of the windpipe, the voice box (6)
15/32 US pianist and bandleader who died in 1984 (5,5)
16/33/40 A colloquial phrase meaning ´nothing at all` (5,5,5)
17 Bill ---, black US actor who played Cliff Huxtable in late 80s sit-com (5)
21 A member of a monotheistic religion founded in the Punjab (4)
22 Chinua Achebe's follow-up novel (1960) to Things Fall Apart (2,6,2,4)
24 Textile centre in the Nord département of France, part of Metropolitan Lille (9)
26 First name of The Addams Family's daughter (9)
28/31 1973 film directed by James William Guercio and starring Robert Blake (7,5,2,4)
32 See 15
33 See 16
35/4 down 1921 satire by Aldous Huxley (5,6)
39 Sebastiano ---, Italian architect and painter (6)
40 See 16
41 --- Square, setting for EastEnders (6)
42 Children's TV programme with animals, detergent bottles, sticky-backed plastic, etc. (4,5)
43 Design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel (9)

Down

Caribbean island which is a self-governing commonwealth associated with the US (6,4)
A bulbous genus of the lily family, it sprang from the blood of a youth killed accidentally by Apollo (8)
Musteline mammal (5)
See 35 Across
David Gates' pop group of the 70s (5)
6/20/38 Defensive detection system (5,7,5)
Dried leaves and flowers of hemp; soft drug (8)
10 The ---, Mary Norton's fantasy novel about a family of little people existing beneath the floorboards (9)
11 A protein derived from milk (6)
18 Republic in the Pyrenees (7)
19 One of the three older Muses - the Muse of Meditation (6)
20 See 6
23 Michael ---, Australia's leading point scorer in international rugby matches (6)
25/36 US singer whose only UK hit was Chuck E.'s in Love in 1979 (6,3,5)
27 Variety of beryl that is blue green in colour (10)
29 Industrial port in Carmarthenshire, Wales (8)
30 Prophet who lived in the 8th century BC, son of Amos (6)
31 College of London University founded in 1823 as an institute of mechanics (8)
34 Capital of the Bahamas (6)
36 See 25
37 George ---, Archbishop of Canterbury since 1991 (5)
38 See 6


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