Puzzle Quiz
Brush up your general knowledge with this bumper crossword
ACROSS
10 Retired female marathon runner (5,9)
12 Plants of the mallow family (10)
15 Novel by Zola (8)
16 Office worker familiar with Pitman’s symbols (9,6) 17 Composer nicknamed the Waltz King (7)
19 French artist who painted
TheYellowCurtain (7) 20 Painting from the 18th century or earlier (3,6) 24 White-bellied songbirds (9) 25 ___ Nights, song from Grease (6)
26 West African country (5) 30 English Nobel Prize winning dramatist (6,6)
32 Member of a Harlem basketball team (12) 33 Glassed in central courtyards (5)
34 Cheated (8)
35 Device for measuring engine speed (10)
39 Arbor vitae (4,2,4)
40 Puccini opera that includes
NessunDorma (8) 41 Cylindrical military hat now only worn ceremonially (5) 43 French term meaning “love at first sight” (4,2,6) 46 Device that turns generators in a conventional power station (5,7)
47 Surname shared by actresses Emma and Sharon (5)
48 Sacred early writings of Zoroastrianism (6)
49 Roman road from Rome to Capua and thence to Brindisi (6,3)
54 14th century collection of novellas by Boccaccio (9) 55 Back payments (7)
56 Kalahari nomad (7)
59 Miser in AChristmasCarol
(8,7)
61 System concerned with conduct and duty (8) 63 Technical term for beekeeping (10)
64 TheNutcracker character (5,4,5)
DOWN
1 ___ Newman, British actress (7)
2 In the Big Bang theory, the primordial matter of the universe (4) 3 Group of landmasses off the Galway coast (4,7) 4 Hitler’s first name (5)
5 First name of thriller writer MacLean (8)
6 Speech that mentioned “government of the people, by the people, for the people” (10,7)
7 Big group of fish (5)
8 ___ the Impaler, inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula
(4)
9 1970s Tessa Wyatt sitcom (6,4)
11 BBC antiques auction programme (4,2) 13 French-born US cellist (2,2,2)
14 Welsh classical and popular mezzo soprano (9,7)
18 Greek counterpart of Venus (9)
21 Surname of 1960s/’70s female impersonator Danny (2,3)
22 Disease caused by lack of vitamin B (8) 23 AWomanOfNo ___, Oscar Wilde play (10)
27 Drowsiness afflicting divers (7,2,3,4)
28 Business not regulated by government (7,10)
29 Shrub of the gorse family (5)
31 Isle of Wight rocks (3,7)
36 Stir fried noodle dish (4,4) 37 Martha and the Muffins hit (4,5)
38 ___ TheFall, Arthur Miller play (5)
42 Ancient ship with five banks of oars (11)
44 Torah (10) 45 Internet-based grocery retailer (5)
50 Division of garden beds in an ornamental pattern (8) 51 Anna ___, author of Black
Beauty (6)
52 Asian river that originates in Tibet (6)
53 Ceiling beams (7)
57 German industrial city near Dortmund (5)
58 Italian Grand Prix circuit (5) 60 Left-handed judge in the Bible (4)
62 Sir David ___, director of 1965 film classic Doctor
Zhivago (4)