Puzzle Quiz

Brush up your general knowledge with this bumper crossword

ACROSS

10 Captain Kirk in Star Trek

(7,7)

12 Waterway in Venice (5,5) 15 Month whose birth signs are Sagittarius and Capricorn (8)

16 Disrespect at a trial (8,2,5) 17 Big cheeses (3,4)

19 North African country (7) 20 Plant shoots as a delicacy (9)

24 Raspberr y brandy (9) 25 Motorbike make (6)

26 Nature based Pagan religion (5)

30 1,500m gold medallist at the Olympics in 1980 and 1984 (9,3)

32 TV’s tenth Doctor Who (5,7)

33 2010 documentar y about a Brazilian motor racing driver (5)

34 Large tropical bird (8) 35 US city that provided the setting for the Dennis Quaid film The Big Easy

(3,7)

39 Reduce (a sail) by lowering the head or raising the boom (10)

40 TheDry ___, one of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets (8) 41 Catalogue chain store (5) 43 Early slide projector (5,7) 46 Buttoned sofa (12)

47 Canine friend of Mickey Mouse (5)

48 Arizona city mentioned in the Beatles’ song GetBack

(6)

49 Anglo Saxon earthwork on the English/Welsh border (5,4)

54 Dutch musician (5,4) 55 Surname of Cuban born singer Gloria (7)

56 16th century Spanish painter (2,5)

59 2012 Daniel Radcliffe film (3,5,2,5)

61 NY’s theatre district (8) 63 Study of insects (10)

64 Naval dice game (5,3,6)

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1 Chief official representing a sovereign in a colony (7) 2 What was the first name of 1970s tennis player Mr Nastase? (4)

3 Mamestra brassicae (7,4) 4 Popular Vauxhall model

(5)

5 Stone formed within the body (8)

6 1944 Frank Capra comedy (7,3,3,4)

7 Cairo’s countr y (5) 8 Surname of HappyDays actor Scott (4)

9 Pattern of spots as on certain plants or animals (10)

11 French city west of Tours (6)

13 Russian countr y houses (6)

14 Creator of Sherlock Holmes (6,5,5)

18 Dumas hero (9)

21 London’s tallest building (5)

22 Indian sun hat (4,4)

23 Singer of IHeardItThrough The Grapevine (6,4)

27 Swimmer who won two gold medals at the Beijing Olympics (7,9) 28 Bacon and prune appetiser (6,2,9)

29 Dennis Waterman’s character in Minder (5) 31 Variety of pear (10)

36 Bird of the flycatcher family (8)

37 Name of the family featured in James Joyce’s

Finnegan’s Wake (9)

38 Golf score of two under par (5)

42 Virginia Woolf novel (3,8) 44 Naturally produced viral inhibitor (10)

45 ___ Dame, famous Parisian cathedral (5) 50 Shale gas production method (8)

51 Detective played by Peter Lorre during the 1930s (2,4)

52 Middle name of US president Franklin Roosevelt (6)

53 Huntsman in Greek myth (7)

57 Arab country that is mostly covered by desert (5)

58 Ver y dark wood (5)

60 Chinese dialect or brand of cooking sauces (4) 62 Detective (4)