Giant General Knowledge #1

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Across
  1. 5. Movement that connects the starred clues
  2. 6. Via, vita, et ________ (from the Latin Vulgate)
  3. 11. Line that separates the old American Confederacy from the North
  4. 14. Williams who played Osric in 1996
  5. 15. The cor anglais or heckelphone e.g.
  6. 16. The only Shakespearean character to recur in more than two plays
  7. 19. Russian drink-dispenser
  8. 21. Country who's flag symbology is based on the supposed story of an event listed in another clue
  9. 22. George who features in the title of a 1984 Pulitzer-prize winning musical that features an appropriately pointillist score
  10. 25. River crossed by George Washington
  11. 26. John who, as one half of a writing pair, wrote 'Kiss of the Spider-woman' and a revue of another answer's work
  12. 27. Like much of Philip Glass's oeuvre
  13. 28. Surname following Karl, Zeppo, or Wilhelm
  14. 30. Place of articulation for a consonant in "hat" and another in "Hawai'i"
  15. 32. Husband to Alcmene and father to Heracles in Greek mythology
  16. 35. One caught in the Great Disappointment, say
  17. 38. Abbrev.: Organization behind Perseverance and Curiosity
  18. 39. Bob who choreographed 'Big Spender' and invented a certain type of amoeba
  19. 43. Like several Asian languages
  20. 44. Like several Asian languages
  21. 46. "The Crescent Moon" e.g.
  22. 48. Suffix with piano or forte
Down
  1. 1. Fictional land that is the central setting for multiple fresco-tableaus by Rex Whistler
  2. 2. *Multi-volumed feminist treaty first published in 1949 that coined the concept of "othering".
  3. 3. Accent above "l'hopital"
  4. 4. Abbrev.: American bar exam
  5. 7. Drinking vessel who's decoration could be described as Hellenic
  6. 8. Month of the national Queen's birthday (now renamed for obvious reasons)
  7. 9. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
  8. 10. Jacques who described his 1967 magnum opus as "a democracy of gags and comics"
  9. 12. Coppola of film
  10. 13. Prize won most recently by Shehan Karunatilka that also has an international category
  11. 17. #Italian painter of "The Assumption of the Virgin"
  12. 18. *Author of an 1864 pseudo-diary subtitled in Russian as "a confession"
  13. 20. Abbrev.: Non-ivy league university that holds an annual puzzle hunt
  14. 23. Shoe-lace part
  15. 24. Nutty, caramelised sweet treat dating from possibly the 17th century
  16. 29. *L'enfers, c'est les _______
  17. 31. Company who's motto is, ironically, "made to move you"
  18. 32. Cruciverbalist alias for Jonathan Crowther who publishes a weekly puzzle in The Observer
  19. 33. Accent above "el nino"
  20. 34. Abbrev.: Newspaper who received and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971
  21. 35. French painter of "The Luncheon on the Grass" which was inspired by a painting by the answer to the hash-tagged clue
  22. 36. *Existence precedes ______
  23. 37. Mesoamerican people who founded Tenochtitlan
  24. 40. Award that can be won in a 'Big 4' category
  25. 41. Current republic of France
  26. 42. TARDIS user
  27. 44. City who's capture was reported by the word "Pescavit"
  28. 45. The first international feature film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards
  29. 47. Abbrev.: Dictionary managed by the Oxford University Press and who's 3rd edition will be entirely published online