GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD No. 5
by Medusa

Across

Building block of proteins (5,4)
Accompaniment above and harmonising with the main melody (7)
10 Brilliant age of literature around the time of the birth of Christ (8)
11 Port and resort in northern Spain (9)
12 Game developed at a public school (4,5)
13 Equilateral parallelogram excluding a square, a lozenge shape (5)
15 City of the ancient world (4)
16 Nephew of Abraham spared from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (3)
17 A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies (8)
18 Alloy of copper and tin (6)
21 Irvine, rugby player or Warhol, artist (4)
23 --- Reekie, Edinburgh (4)
25 Arab chief (6)
27 Lincolnshire town, birthplace of Baroness Thatcher (8)
28 Principal founder of the People's Republic of China (3)
29 Less sensitive light-receptor cells in the eye (4)
31 ----- Flynn, swashbuckling Hollywood hero (5)
32 Fourteen books of the bible not include in the Jewish or Protestant canon (9)
34 Italian nationalist, his red shirt or a biscuit (9)
35 A small ring-shaped fried cake (8)
36 Cambridge or Dublin college; a Term (7)
37 Royal Military Academy (9)

Down

Pre-WW2 French defences, hang out your washing there! (7,4)
Titus, informer in the Popish plot 1678 (5)
The leader of singing in church (6)
Amusement centre in Anaheim, California, not to be confused with a similar establishment in Orlando, Florida (10)
Male sheep between the first and second shearing (7)
Through-bass style of accompaniment, often on harpsichord (8)
Boring and tedious (8)
Ghanaian port alongside Sekondi (8)
14 Artist for the History of British Birds and a swan named after him (6)
15 Otter hero of Henry Williamson's 1927 book (5)
19 Middle name of Charles Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer (6)
20 Country unofficially known as Holland (11)
21 11th and 12th century Berber dynasty in N. Africa and Spain (10)
22 Site of 3 WWI battles, 1914, 1915 and 1917 (5)
24 Creator of Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle amongst others (8)
25 A poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) (8)
26 Passivity (8)
28 Hero of 1910 novel by H. G. Wells (2,5)
30 Poet, author of Absalom and Achitophel (6)
33 German composer, famous for his Violin Concerto and his Kol Nidrei variations (5)


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