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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Best-known work of (3,9,2,8)
A TV forerunner to Downton Abbey (8,10)
Thick-trunked tree in Africa, Australia (6)
Brazilian football captain and manager (5)
Trinidadian writer who won Nobel Prize in 2001 (7)
Creation of Sir Thomas More (6) Scotch mist? (4) Film starring Robert Shaw and Edward Fox, from Alistair MacLean novel (5,3,4,8)
English city where the Romans built a spa (4)
She played Jinx in Die Another Day (5,5)
Old gold or silver coin (5) A biblical priest (3) First name of BBC’s lead news presenter (3) File – hidden in biscuit? (6) A Roman conspirator (6)
A classic French dessert (5,7)
Female member of Fagin’s gang in Oliver Twist (5) Play by Peter Shaffer (5) Plane regarded as key to Battle of Britain (8)
Its most famous ad campaign starred Lynda Bellingham (3) Old name for nettle rash (5) Native of Canadian province (9)
Artist who painted The Skating Minister (7)
Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra (7)
A city in both California and Texas... (8)
...and the 45th state of the USA (4)
Crop, member of wheat family (3)
A galley with three ranks of oars (7) Jules Verne’s captain (4) The world’s eighth most populous country (10)
Public transport system... and what you might read on it (5)
Plant, also known as sweet briar (9)
Chemical element named after (7) A traditional tax (5) Norse god of thunder (4) Case for a ship’s compass A fruit from Jamaica (4) Lead singer of R.E.M. (7,5) ------- Raquin, novel by Emile Zola (7) Rail line which connects Lanarkshire/Dunbartonshire (6)
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Sporting event which dates back to 1903 (4,2,6) The setting for Hamlet (8) A young soy bean (7) Fast Italian folk dance (10) It’s exposed by a crop top (7)
The creation of Blair, Brown, Campbell (3,6) A black thrush (5) Satirical poet of the Restoration court (4,2,9) Islamic religious leader (4)
An early Scots makar, who wrote (6,8)
The 16th president of the US (7,7)
A type of alternative medicine (9)
Prince’s ninth studio album (4,1,3,5)
English writer – you sure? (5)
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Native American tribe (6) A form of political drama (8,7)
Artistic period that began around 1600 (7)
German writer and statesman (6) All in all (in Europe) (4,8) Italian seen as founder of modern sculpture (6)
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A mathematical term (6,4)
Film legend born Allan Konigsberg (5,5)
Rock group fronted by Midge Ure (8)
A description of the Mona Lisa (9)
It falls 50 days after Easter (9) Paying attention to (7) Famous Scottish environmentalist (4,4)
Spain’s third largest city
Abbreviation referring to sexuality/gender groups (4)
Leaf vegetable used in salads (6)
The matriarch of Scotland’s Ewing dynasty (6)
---- Heart Mother, Pink Floyd album (4) Unit of energy/work (3) A versatile vehicle, in short