How much do you know about Scotland and the world? Test yourself with the Sunday Herald’s giant general knowledge crossword ...
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Chocolate-coated products from Lanarkshire baker (8,8)
Form of exercise performed in prone position (5-3)
Protagonist of German literature who makes pact with the devil (5)
Of a small island nation off the east coast of China (9)
Able to be used over great distances (4-5)
Relating to chemical element with symbol Sb (11) Romulus+Remus, say (5) Coarse grass native to Southern Europe and North Africa (7) Longest river in China (7) Local royal officer in medieval Scotland (5)
Clothes designed for recreational activities (11)
Unit Ah used in battery ratings (6,5)
Early alcoholic drink mixed with dairy products and spices (3-4)
Fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat with single mast (5)
Creation of Barrie, boy who never grows up (5,3) Yearly (3,5) Part of the seed which becomes a root (7)
Alternation of generations, derived from Greek words for different and marriage (10)
Having divisions of a hundredth (10)
Court-ordered support paid by one English spouse to another after separation (7)
Device to automatically plot a course travelled (8) Brand of canned fish (4,4) Professional boxer from Coatbridge, ----- Burns (5)
Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra (7)
Manipulator of telecommunications system often using a blue box (5,6)
Comedy duo, Janette and Ian Tough (3,8) A noisy fuss (3-2) Area within City of Westminster known for Regency architecture (7) Prehistoric flint tool (7) The smallest discrete component of an image (5)
Facility for secure storage of valuables (4-7) Repeating (9) Relating to the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth (9)
Michelle -----, singer and actress who played Hattie Tavernier in EastEnders (5)
Cockney rhyming slang for tea (5,3)
Baked product originally invented as aid to digestion (9,7)
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Art Nouveau light fixtures with decorative glass shades (7,5)
Aquatic organisms living on top or just below surface of water (7)
Verse line having eight metrical feet (9) East African cotton fabric (7) Roman fort at Newstead, near Melrose (10)
Shrinking lake, once fourth largest in the world (4,3)
Representatice in UK of a Canadian province or Australian state (5-7)
Hebrew prophet, giving his name to book of the Bible (7)
Form of poem used in In Flanders Fields (7)
Designed without material to go over the shoulder (9)
Relating to one of the bones of the forearm (5)
Someone skilled in the transcription of speech (12)
Maximum stress a material can sustain without permanent deformation (7,5)
Public school in Berkshire (4,7)
Imaginary shape used in calculating contact between gearwheels (5,6)
Another term for alliteration (4,5)
--------- Willie, 1928 animated short film directed by Walt Disney (9)
Fizzy drink flavoured with a spice widely used in folk medicine (6,3)
Optical instrument used in tanks and submarines (9)
Proportion, sometimes represented using colon (5)
Matt -----, US actor who plays Jason Bourne (5)
Small lumps appearing on skin in reaction to eg cold or fear (5,7)
Short-legged dog breed from the Highlands (5,7)
Device used to test drivers for alcohol (12)
City in Staffordshire known as The Potteries (5-2-5)
Inlet of North Sea famed for its dolphin population (5,5)
Very tall beer glass holding about 2.4 pints (4,2,3)
The starting points of websites (4,5)
Alternative name for hookah (7)
Biggest selling single from Tom Jones’ 1999 album Reload (3,4) Offensive to sensibility (7) Cycle rickshaw (7) Informal exclamation of shock or disbelief (1,3,3)
Game played on chequered board (5)
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