Express General Knowledge Crossword No. 9
by Medusa

Across

1/5 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth (3,3,2,3,6)
10 Leonardo ---, US actor who was starred in Titanic (8)
11 Philosopher who said cogito ergo sum (9)
12 Peninsula at the northern end of the Red Sea (5)
14 Pact renouncing war as an instrument of policy signed in 1928 and named after the then US Secretary of State (7)
16 Carlisle's river (4)
18 Richard ---, Swiss physical chemist who won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1991 (5)
19 Obsolete Portuguese and Brazilian money of account (4)
20 Boris ---, Russian novelist, author of Dr. Zhivago (9)
23 Food of the gods (8)
24 Gordon ---, manager of Coventry City F.C. (8)
25 Lower house of the German parliament (9)
28 Hindu system of philosophy (4)
29 --- Days, three days in each season of the year appointed by the Christian Churches for prayer and fasting (5)
31 Greenish-blue (4)
33 Earth measurement on a large scale (7)
35 Liverpool airport; John ---, explorer of Somaliland and Tanganyika (5)
39 Brain-teaser, enigma, riddle (9)
40 Braggadochio's squire in Spenser's Faerie Queene (8)
41/42 1878 novel by Thomas Hardy (6,2,3,6)

Down

Republic in the west of Hispaniola (5)
Virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon in Roman mythology (5)
91.44 centimetres (4)
Colourless gas (5)
US country-dance (7)
7/38 The plant, goat's beard (4-2-2-3-2-4)
Old unit of radioactivity equal to 37 GBq (5)
Olympic marathon winner 1960 and 1964 (5,6)
12 Cleansing agent; type of serial (4)
13 --- Lofgren, guitarist who joined Springsteen's E. Street Band in 1984, replacing Steve Van Zandt (4)
15 Staffordshire town; Allium porrum (4)
17 Austrian village where Hitler had his heavily fortified lair (13)
19 TV series based on Alex Haley novel which began with the birth of Kunta Kinte (5)
21 UK novelist who created the country Ruritania (7,4)
22 A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions (5)
25 Soft French cheese (4)
26 Newcastle's river (4)
27 Self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome (4)
30 Warrior hero of Old English poem recently translated by Seamus Heaney (7)
32 Pacific Island near the equator (5)
34 Erik ---, French composer who died in 1925 (5)
36 Small bird, Anthus pratensis, for example (5)
37 Ballet company founded in St Petersburg in 1935 (5)
38 See 7


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