Puzzle Quiz
Brush up your general knowledge with this bumper crossword
ACROSS 8 Rank of hospital doctor (6,9) 11 Italian mathematician (9) 15 Actor who played the title role in the 2015-19 Poldark series (5,6) 16 Surname of “the King of Swing” Benny (7) 17 Devon river (4) 18 Polish-born American Jewish Nobel Prize winning novelist (5,8,6) 19 The Mill On The ___, George Eliot novel (5) 21 Abigail’s Party director (4,5) 22 1956 Marilyn Monroe film (3,4) 28 Asian mammal of the order Dermoptera (6,5) 30 First name of Ms Jones, Doctor Foster actress (7) 34 Hard working horse in Animal Farm (5) 35 Director of MrDeedsGoes To Town (5) 36 Common European wild arum (6,4) 39 1957 Jackie Wilson hit (4,6) 40 Muse of love poetr y (5) 41 Willow species (5) 44 Hollande’s predecessor as president of France (7) 45 Orson Welles film (7,4) 49 Winter Olympics event (7) 50 Fish with long barbels on the chin (3,6) 57 Jeweller’s magnifier (5) 58 Designers of machines (10,9) 60 Theda ___, 1910s/20s US actress (4) 61 Northumberland town north of Newcastle (7) 62 Female half of The Eurythmics (5,6) 63 State that’s south of Colorado (3,6) 64 Technique of psychoanalysis (4,11)
DOWN 1 ___ Of You, 2005 hit for Kelly Clarkson (7) 2 Nottingham cricket ground (5,6) 3 Removed (property) until a dispute is settled (11) 4 Biscuit variety (8) 5 Songbirds which form large flocks (9) 6 SS leader (7) 7 Clean or roughen (a sur face) with a jet of fine particles (9) 9 Ocean west of Malaysia (6) 10 ___ Strindberg, Swedish playwright (6) 12 Actress Ms Chaplin (4) 13 Olympic champion cyclist (5,3) 14 Captain W E ___, author of the Biggles books (5) 20 Fan of ska or reggae music (4,3) 23 Old hospital social worker (7) 24 London department store founded in 1875 (7) 25 Major Iranian city and airport (7) 26 Surname of legendary James Bond producer Cubby (8) 27 Father of Methuselah (5) 29 Main character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislaver y novel (5,3) 31 Genus of birds to which the kiwi belongs (7) 32 World chess champion from 1969 to 1972 (7) 33 First part of Dante’s The Divine Comedy (7) 37 Greek wine (7) 38 Nomadic people of Eritrea and Sudan (5) 42 Knight of the Round Table (3,8) 43 Movement of objects by willpower (11) 46 Brand name energy drink (8) 47 Instruction to infantrymen? (5,4) 48 Emily ___, actress sister of Zooey (9) 51 Style of cooking meat cutlets etc (8) 52 Home town of the Flintstones (7) 53 Green movie ogre (5) 54 Part of the stamen that contains pollen (6) 55 Surname of the central family in Pride And Prejudice (6) 56 Terminus of the London Underground Victoria Line (7) 59 System which displays larger images than conventional film (4)