Puzzle Quiz

Brush up your general knowledge with this bumper crossword

ACROSS 10 Waterway that narrows into the Severn estuary (7,7)

12 Author of Agnes Grey (4,6) 15 Surname of the heroine in Trollope’s CanYouForgive

Her? (8)

16 Style of swimming (9,6) 17 Alpine pass (7)

19 Cretan princess who helped Theseus (7) 20 Buddhist leader (5,4) 24 Hundreds, at cricket (9) 25 5th century king of the Huns (6)

26 Freshwater organism famed for its regenerative ability (5)

30 Ingredient of a Brandy Alexander cocktail (5,2,5)

32 HouseofWax star (7,5) 33 Battle where William of Orange defeated the Jacobites (5)

34 Old machine for spinning cotton (8)

35 TheGood ___, novel by JB Priestley (10)

39 Meaty eatery (10) 40 Honorary title on retirement (8)

41 Mel B’s Spice Girls epithet (5)

43 Removal of sodium chloride (12)

46 Island between Bute and mainland Scotland (5,7) 47 Brand name loaf (5) 48 German town known in French as Aix la Chapelle (6)

49 Akhenaten’s wife (9) 54 Tranquilliser (9)

55 Interlaced (7) 56 Gwendolen’s surname in TheImportanceofBeing Earnest (7)

59 During a preliminary court hearing (2,5,8) 61 Surname of British dramatist Terence (8)

63 Drawing (a crowd) (10) 64 1941 Bing Crosby film (4,2,8) DOWN 1 Rustic district of ancient Greece (7)

2 Continent (4)

3 Blustering (11)

4 African capital situated almost on the Greenwich Meridian (5)

5 Cornish town where the last working tin mine in Europe was located (8) 6 Power from non nuclear or fossil fuel sources (11,6) 7 Aberdeenshire town (5) 8 Style of motor racing (4) 9 Participant in a chukka (4,6)

11 ___ Detroit, GuysandDolls role (6)

13 Famous comic book hero (6)

14 US ideal? (3,8,5) 18 Inflammation of the lungs (9)

21 Delicately flavoured seaweed used in Japanese cuisine (5)

22 Tiny island off Sark (8) 23 Compound used as a local anaesthetic (10)

27 Wooden chest residing within the Jewish Holy of Holies (3,2,3,8)

28 Australian state, capital Darwin (8,9)

29 Joel Coen’s film director brother (5)

31 Rope to rope knot (5,5) 36 Canadian federal police officers (8)

37 Enclosed apparatus for premature babies (9) 38 ___ Evert, 1970s tennis champion (5)

42 Deducting (11)

44 Orwell novel (6,4) 45 Jordanian port (5) 50 Canines in the upper jaw (35)

51 Of iron (6)

52 Kate’s sister in TheTaming

oftheShrew (6) 53 Noblest of King Arthur’s knights (7)

57 Forename of the architect Jones (5)

58 Creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel (5)

60 Chocolate snack made by Mars (4)

62 Biopic movie with Judi Dench and Kate Winslet (4)