General Knowledge #1

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Across
  1. 2. Month of the national King's birthday
  2. 5. Shoe-lace part
  3. 8. Like much of Philip Glass' oeuvre
  4. 10. Movement that connects the starred clues
  5. 12. Cor anglais relative
  6. 13. The only Shakespearean character to recur in more than two plays
  7. 15. Surname following Karl, Zeppo, or Wilhelm
  8. 17. Husband to Alcmene and father to Heracles in Greek mythology
  9. 18. Company who's motto is, ironically, "made to move you"
  10. 21. One caught in the Great Disappointment, say
  11. 22. Williams who played Osric in 1996
  12. 23. They were described as 'pathetic' and 'impassioned'
  13. 24. The first international feature film to win Best Picture at the Oscars
  14. 28. Prize most recently won by Shehan Karunatilka that also has an international category
  15. 30. Despite their names, Morse code and ASCII code, for example
  16. 33. Japanese filmmaker who famously cut to a vase
  17. 34. TARDIS user
  18. 35. Country who's dual heads of state are changed every six months as per the single oldest government legislation still in use
  19. 37. Painting exercise in which a sculpture of the musculoskeletal system is made to study the human form
  20. 40. *Existence precedes ______
  21. 42. Second Grand Inquisitor (successor to Torquemada and inspiration for the answer to another clue in this puzzle)
  22. 44. Accent that appears above 'el nino'
Down
  1. 1. American national holiday celebrating Emancipation
  2. 3. Encyclopedia ______ (reference work with sections on Golems and the founding of Israel)
  3. 4. Lat. Vulg.: Via et _____ et vita
  4. 6. French painter of "The Luncheon on the Grass", a pastiche of a much lesser-known 1515 engraving
  5. 7. Linguist and statistician who demonstrated that the fraction of usage of any word in a language is approximately 1 divided by it's rank in frequency
  6. 9. *Author of an 1864 pseudo-diary subtitled in Russian as "a confession"
  7. 11. Noble gase frequently used in flash lamps
  8. 14. *Multi-volumed feminist treaty first published in 1949 that coined the concept of "social othering".
  9. 16. Nonce word that appears in 'The Pirates of Penzance'
  10. 17. *L'enfers, c'est les _______
  11. 19. Award that can be won in a 'Big 4' category
  12. 20. Jacques who described his 1967 magnum opus as "a democracy of gags and comics"
  13. 25. Cruciverbalist alias for Jonathan Crowther who publishes a weekly puzzle in The Observer
  14. 26. Like many East-Asian languages
  15. 27. Like many East-Asian languages
  16. 29. System in which 100 + 100 equals 1000
  17. 31. Along with the chimpanzee, the closest human relative
  18. 32. Nutty, caramelised, American sweet
  19. 36. Currency who's bills feature non-existent buildings
  20. 38. Abbrev.: Dictionary managed by the Oxford University Press and who's 3rd edition will be entirely published online
  21. 39. Abbrev.: American bar exam
  22. 41. Abbrev.: Newspaper who received and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971
  23. 43. Shak. Ham.: And yet to me, what is this quintessence of ____?