Puzzle Quiz

Brush up your general knowledge with this bumper crossword

ACROSS 8 Number One hit for Abba in 1978 (4,1,6,2,2)

11 Nigel Kennedy’s profession (9)

15 Gun or camera device (11) 16 Israeli currency units (7) 17 Measure of 36 inches (4) 18 Jacobite pretender to the throne (6,6,7)

19 1970s Lotus car model (5) 21 Athenian temple (9) 22 An official language of Switzerland (7)

28 Lawrence Of Arabia actor (5,6)

30 Glasgow stadium (7)

34 Both times (5)

35 New England state (5) 36 Scottish architect, 172892 (6,4)

39 St Andrews, The Belfr y or Troon, eg (4,6)

40 ___ Hall and John Oates, singing duo (5)

41 Northern hemisphere forest region (5)

44 P L ___, author of Mary

Poppins (7)

45 Scientific name for mankind (4,7)

49 Coastal region of NW

Italy (7)

50 Dangerously unsafe structure (5,4)

57 Moniker by which Baroness Grey Thompson is known (5)

58 Evelyn Waugh novel (10,9) 60 ___ Effects, 2013 Steven Soderbergh film (4) 61 Georgia’s capital (7) 62 Shakespeare comedy of an exiled duke (2,3,4,2) 63 Inland water body between Russia and Ukraine (3,2,4) 64 Holman Hunt painting at Keble College, Oxford (5,2,3,5)

DOWN 1 Series of British comedy films which ran from

1958 (5,2)

2 Device for imparting high energies to atomic particles (11)

3 Adjustment of an instrument to make it accurate (11) 4 Choreographed routine on a rink (3,5)

5 Thick beef fillet (9) 6 1985 charity concert (4,3) 7 Bravo Two Zero author (4,5)

9 Weather phenomenon (2,4) 10 ___ Barton, TheOC actress (6) 12 One of Bart Simpson’s sisters (4) 13 Floating seaweed found in the N Atlantic (8) 14 County of south west Ireland (5)

20 EscapeTo The ___, BBC property show (7)

23 Coastal Californian tree (7) 24 Brand name instant hot drink (7)

25 Play by Seneca the

Younger (7)

26 Texan town (8)

27 Surname of Ore, TV presenter and Strictly winner in 2016 (5)

29 Small Ceredigion town (8) 31 Jewish language (7) 32 One of Charlemagne’s twelve peers (7)

33 ___ On The Telephone,

Blondie single (7)

37 Vice president of medicine in Dickens’ TheMudfog

Papers (7)

38 Traditional South African village of huts surrounded by a fence (5)

42 French for “immediately” (4,2,5)

43 Crime series which ran from 1968 to 1980 (6,4 1) 46 Essential nutrient found in egg yolk (7,1) 47 Evita’s husband (4,5) 48 Extra sensor y perception between two minds (9) 51 Young 1950s male with drainpipe trousers (5,3) 52 Surname of Roy, 1960s US singer (7)

53 Surname of Bill, Goodie turned TV naturalist (5) 54 Italian town associated with St Francis (6)

55 1st century BC Roman orator and opponent of Caesar (6)

56 Non-Jewish person (7) 59 Volcano in Sicily (4)