MAIL ON SUNDAY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE No.4
by Medusa

Across

Flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel (8)
11 Apocalypse written by St. John the Divine (10)
12 Goddess of fertility (4)
13 Lake east of the Caspian (4,3)
14 Sell or transfer abroad (6)
15 Winner of Olympic 5,000m (1952) and 10,000m (1948 and 1952) gold medals (4,7)
16 Spanish conqueror of Peru, 1531 (7)
19 Fuzzy ---, winner of the 1979 US Masters golf tournament (7)
21 TV show based on words and associated with Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell (4,2,5)
24 Rolling Stones follow-up number 1 to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (3,3,2,2,5)
28 US actress, won Academy award for Coal Miner's Daughter in 1980 (5,6)
30 Sour-milk product (7)
32 French impressionist composer (7)
34 A sound-box with strings tuned in unison, sounding harmonics in currents of air (7,4)
38 Coniferous tree of the genus Picea (6)
40 Herb used a great deal in Italian cooking (7)
41 SE African people (4)
42 Hero of a romance by Cervantes (3,7)
43 UK bomber; Scottish town; --- Moss, racing driver (8)

Down

Orange fruit resembling a plum (9)
Walter ---, English poet who wrote Songs of Childhood (1902) (2,2,4)
Musical instruction that the notes are to be played smoothly (6)
Only surviving trilogy of classical Greek drama, it includes Agamemnon (8)
Pertaining to or characteristic of birds (5)
Glossy monthly magazine for women (4)
Perfect society described by Thomas More in his 1516 book (6)
David ---, 1982 Commonwealth Games 5,000m winner (9)
10 Common black European thrush (5)
17 Pastoral heaven (5)
18 Welsh county (5)
20 Yorkshire city or Kent castle (5)
22 Irish lake (5)
23 C sharp (1,4)
25 Manchester pop group led by the Gallagher brothers (5)
26 Merseyside city-port (9)
27 London theatre (founded 1663) and street (5,4)
29 Scrooge's Christian name (8)
31 Musical setting for a religious text (8)
33 Capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of China at the foot of the Tian Shan Mountains (one spelling) (6)
35 Act as an intermediary (6)
36 A tree (Corylus) of the birch family (5)
37 1964 number 1 for the Moody Blues (2,3)
39 Pen name of Charles Lamb in his Essays (4)


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