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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The seventh of Walter Scott’s Waverley novels (3,5,2,10)
Resort town within Argyll and Bute (4)
Frank McAvennie played for this London club (4,3) Unit of sound intensity (7) Old location of Glasgow maternity hospital (9)
County town of north-west Ireland (5)
Items used in folk medicine for injury caused by eg viper (11)
Christian name of Boyle, Glaswegian comedian (7)
Writer of songs of mourning (8)
Word meaning fanatic, deriving from ancient Jewish sect (6)
Weapons of the type used by Poseidon (8) The second D of DVD (4) Device for passing a fluid slowly and continuously (4-4)
Manager of Liverpool FC, 1959-74 (4,7)
Archaic word for education (11)
‘Standard’ end to motor race (9,4)
Taming of the Shrew - ‘Unto a mad-brain -------, full of spleen’ (7)
Sons of Emperor of Austria were known as such (9)
Musical term meaning heavy (7)
Royal palace in Edinburgh (13)
Top division in Scottish football (11)
Site in Jerusalem where Jews assemble for lamentation (7,4)
Members of on-line communities (8)
Abbreviation for a certain luxury car (4)
Prime Minister preceded by Lloyd George (5,3)
Joints connecting the humerus, radius and ulna (6)
Nemesis of Sherlock Holmes (8)
The collection of Aristotle’s works on logic, The ------- (7)
One of four basic maritime methods of securing rope (7,4)
Martial art using bamboo swords (5)
Realms of former minor nobles (9)
Lift forcibly from beneath
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(7)
Large bowed musical instrument (7)
Short-lived nihilistic art movement (4)
The AST in, for example, Barbados 9.00am, AST (8,8,4)
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Surname of lead guitarist of The Who (9)
Renfrewshire town on south bank of the Clyde; Lowland clan (7)
African country, capital Addis Ababa (8)
The name given to any of 11 Pharaohs of Egypt (7)
Town in Greater Manchester, birthplace of Brian Cox (6) Longest river in Canada (9) Method of electronic payment or withdrawal (5,4)
County seat of Orange County, Florida (7)
Falcon-headed ancient Egyptian god (5)
Legislation of 1746 affecting Scotland, the first of the ‘ King’s Laws’ (3,2,12)
Medieval defensive structure lending its name to a country dance (7)
Mid-Atlantic state, one of the original 13 colonies (3,6) Motto of the RAF (3,5,2,5) Cultural region of USA, containing Pittsburgh, Birmingham, Knoxville (10)
Planning of content for radio and TV broadcasting (9)
Sure-footed herbivore endemic to North America (5,8,4)
Ending of a relationship (5-2)
Characteristic of the reign of an 18th century French king (5-5)
Succulent plant bearing red, yellow or pink flower clusters on long stems (9)
A member of London’s first police force (3,6,6)
Dark-skinned grape variety also known as Shiraz (5)
Relating to or derived from the sense of touch (7)
Group of military officers around whom unit is formed (5)
Command to make a horse move faster (3,2)
Having toes joined together with skin (3-6)
Relating to most recent period of the Stone Age (9)
The four-dimensional analogue of a cube (9) Formerly, of Sri Lanka (9) 2015 Strictly Come Dancing contestant, weather presenter Carol -------- (8)
A person who begrudges spending (7) Court proceeding (7) Mid-size family car produced by Skoda (7) Indian art-form (7) Belonging to a mountain range of South America (6)
Iraq’s second largest city
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(5)