07.04 2023. General Trivia

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Across
  1. 1. Name of 'The Witcher' protagonist
  2. 4. The strongest chess piece
  3. 5. Kali _____
  4. 9. Rock band named after the final stage of sleep
  5. 10. Setting of the Iliad
  6. 11. Leader of forty thieves in the Arabian folk-tale
  7. 13. Largest branch of Islam
  8. 14. Sword with a curved blade used in the Middle East
  9. 18. Popular Metallica song
  10. 19. Writer of Antigone, Ajax and Oedipus Rex
  11. 22. Begin the ______
  12. 25. Director of 'Citizen Kane'
  13. 27. Ancient religion, endemic to Japan
  14. 28. Last Russian royal house
  15. 29. Egyptian god of death before Osiris
  16. 31. Plucked string instrument originating in the Indian subcontinent
  17. 32. Japanese filmmaker Akira of 'Seven Samurai' fame
  18. 34. Japanese word for deity
  19. 36. Ayyubid dynasty founder and first sultan of both Egypt and Syria
  20. 38. Esoteric body of Islamic practice
  21. 40. Half-giant from the Harry Potter books
  22. 43. Roman god of war
  23. 44. Popular matching card game
  24. 45. Surname of Spanish 2x F1 champion
  25. 47. He met the tree witches with Macbeth
  26. 48. Name of the deepest oceanic trench on Earth
  27. 49. Largest exporter of coffee
  28. 51. Alleged writer of both 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'
  29. 53. Roman adversary in the Punic wars
Down
  1. 2. Judge, jury and ________
  2. 3. Dwight D. ______
  3. 6. Largest uninhabited island in the world
  4. 7. Marco ____
  5. 8. Prussian and later German statesman Otto
  6. 12. Beware the ________
  7. 15. First and last ruler of Rome
  8. 16. Shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Scottish folklore
  9. 17. Chemical element CR
  10. 20. Birth surname of Muhammad Ali
  11. 21. Penalty technique in which the taker lobs the ball into the centre of the goal
  12. 22. Actor Marlon famed for his roles in 'The Godfather' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
  13. 23. John, Paul, Ringo and _____
  14. 24. Egyptian Liverpool F.C. forward
  15. 26. District in Monaco
  16. 30. Sacred language of Hinduism
  17. 33. Exhibiting or involving medical symptoms
  18. 35. relating to the viscera.
  19. 36. Melodic piece in a song usually performed by the lead guitar
  20. 37. American GPU company
  21. 39. Walk with difficulty
  22. 41. Non-Jewish
  23. 42. Capital of Afghanistan
  24. 46. American blues rock guitarist from Texas
  25. 50. Not moving
  26. 52. Bosnian title equivalent to duke