Puzzle Quiz
Brush up your general knowledge with this bumper crossword
ACROSS
8 Famous Covent Garden building (5,5,5) 11 TV show with Geoffrey Bayldon in the title role (9) 15 Alloy used for coins (5 6) 16 Ancient state of western Italy (7) 17 Charles Lamb’s pseudonym (4) 18 Wearers of the képi blanc (6,7,6) 19 Harry Judd’s band (5) 21 Chant used in some churches (9) 22 River in south west France (7) 28 NT epistles, by St Paul (11) 30 Colombian cowboy (7) 34 Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter (5) 35 Surname of Dave, one of TV’s Hairy Bikers (5) 36 Native of Quito (10) 39 Location of Heriot Watt University’s School of Textiles and Design (10) 40 Disney princess in the 2009 film The Princess And The Frog (5) 41 Meaning “as above” (5) 44 WWII fighter plane (7) 45 Old New York immigration point (5,6) 49 Nuns’ head dresses (7) 50 Curved missile (9) 57 Painter famous for his ‘matchstick’ figures (5) 58 Christopher Marlowe play (11,3,5) 60 Crater formed by a single explosion (4) 61 SI electrical unit (7) 62 Concerning a particular district or locality (11) 63 Medieval ballista (9) 64 Venomous Aussie arachnid (6,3,6)
DOWN
1 Capital of the US state of New Hampshire (7) 2 Archer (11) 3 Inflammation of the intestinal membrane (11) 4 Heart Of ___, Joseph Conrad novel (8) 5 Evonne ___, 1970s tennis player (9) 6 Brave fighter (7) 7 18th century captain and explorer (5,4) 9 Of the Swiss peaks (6) 10 Surname of Tommy, star of Half A Sixpence (6) 12 River on which Chester le Street stands (4) 13 Clark Kent’s female colleague in the Superman stories (4,4) 14 Lutyens castle near Dartmoor (5) 20 1950 Max Ophüls film (2,5) 23 River flowing through Washington DC (7) 24 Cold dry wind of the Mediterranean (7) 25 Native of Juneau (7) 26 National game of the USA (8) 27 Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh detective (5) 29 Plants of the figwort family (8) 31 Alfred Hitchcock classic starring Kim Novak (7) 32 Pioneer aviator, brother of Wilbur Wright (7) 33 Gin and vermouth mixture (7) 37 Rabbit in Walt Disney’s Bambi (7) 38 Argentinian footballer (5) 42 White Rhine wine (11) 43 High heeled Disney character (6,5) 46 Diplodocus, eg (8) 47 Dish of closely trimmed pork bones (5,4) 48 Lightweight car racing (2,7) 51 Large baboon (8) 52 Montague’s enemy (7) 53 Monastery head (5) 54 Scottish soft drink (3,3) 55 Distinguished Italian family of the Middle Ages (6) 56 Athlete who sometimes uses a pole (7) 59 Australian rock group of the 1970s/80s (2/2)