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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Catch-all term for illegal online activity (10)
People imagining their illnesses (14)
Religion practised by Muslims (5)
A business that breeds chickens (7-4)
Foot-powered passenger vehicle (7)
Cathedral city in the Fens (3)
High-speed touring car, abbreviation GT (4,7)
Restricted provision of foodstuffs (9)
From The Alphabet Song: ‘A – you’re --------’ (8)
Actor, played Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction (4,6)
‘Hand of God’ footballer’s first name (5)
George Eliot’s lastcompleted novel, published 1876 (6,7)
Old Motherwell steelworks with redevelopment plans (11) Mull, for example (4) What stockbrokers do on Wall Street? (3,3,4)
Peak that’s home to the UK’s highest railway (9)
North American term for plasterboard (7)
A person who is on the property ladder (9)
Semitic language spoken by Christ (7) Capital of Somalia (9) What Andy Murray plays at Wimbledon (4,6)
Edible root of plants such as the taro (4)
Former footballing captain of A Question of Sport (4,7)
In Christianity, the beginning and the end (5,3,5)
Semi-aquatic animal of the weasel family (5)
Council area, administrative centre: Dalkeith (10)
Type of house separated from neighbouring homes (8)
Convex traffic calming measure (5,4)
US actor, 4ft 8in star of the TV show Taxi (5,6) A golfing score (3) Historical Scottish title for a magistrate (7)
Science of aircraft construction and flying (11)
Scots term for the verb ‘tangles’ (5)
Medical theory championed by Sigmund Freud (14)
Scottish writer of the 1998 novel The Sopranos (4,6)
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1989 Woody Allen film starring Martin Landau (6,3,12) The Big Yin (5,8) Term meaning ‘ moved back to one’s homeland’ (10)
High Renaissance artist, painter of The Parnassus (7)
Such as McKinley and Rushmore? (6)
Toys made of two discs and a piece of string (2-3)
A phrase meaning ‘ away with the fairies’ (2,7,6)
Another term for ‘ boring and everyday’ (7)
In computing, a unit equal to 1.44 bits (5)
Surname of actor who played The Sundance Kid in 1969 (7)
Technical term for an island chain (11)
“While he, --- rosa, played his part/Amang their wives and lasses” (Burns ballad) (3) Sagittarius, say (4,4) Scottish writer, creator of the Flashman novels (6,9,6)
Depression-set 1939 John Steinbeck novel (6,2,5)
Proclaimers song: ‘---shine on Leith’ (3) Scottish term for booty (6) Type of fir named after a Scottish botanist (7)
English comedian --Reeves (3)
Surname of the author of Heart of Darkness (6)
American event similar to banger racing (10,5)
Peter Capaldi’s paternal nationality of descent (7)
Wheeled transport for two riders (6)
In Scotland, wild and chaotic behaviour (6)
Actress, star of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (6,7)
Phrase meaning ‘to adorn unnecessarily’ (4,3,4)
Israeli-invented submachine gun (3)
The American Mafia, in English: ‘ our thing’ (4,6)
River on which England’s second oldest university sits (3)
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Strange-looking semiaquatic Australian mammal (8)
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Christian name of the silent film star Valentino (7)
Curried dish of meat and onions (7)
Leif _____, early Icelandic explorer (7)
A rod used to help with radio reception (6)
Body of Muslim scholars (5)
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In Hinduism, a bull symbolising fertility (5)
Circular bread roll (3)
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