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 Northern Lights of ---------- (3,8) Village on Islay (4,9) What Canadians call their one-dollar coins (7)
Another word for knowledgeable or learned (7)
Insect Scots call a slater (9)
Feigning of death to escape predation (10)
Girl With A Pearl -------, painting by Vermeer (7)
Game played with a small rubber ball (6)
An oleoresin from a tropical tree, used in varnishes etc (5)
A form of written language for blind people (7)
Common term for lateral epicondylitis (6,5)
Pop duo formed in Coatbridge in 1983 (3,3,3)
Dr Hawley -------, hanged for his wife’s murder (7)
Shakespeare play featuring the character Iago (7
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A place or group that is different from those surrounding it (7)
Eric -------, guitarist whose nickname is Slowhand (7)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed some for Miss Cranston (3,5)
Musical featuring You’ll Never Walk Alone (8)
O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to ------- (7)
City that boasts the CN Tower (7)
A solvent used to make paint less viscous (7)
What the third letter in SAS stands for (7)
A convert from one religion or opinion to another (9)
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Medicines that include penicillin (11)
Someone who engages in a pursuit on unpaid basis (7)
National ----- for Scotland, conservation charity (5)
Member of a West Indian criminal gang (6)
Family name of Russia’s rulers for three centuries (7)
Italian Renaissance painter also known as Il Furioso (10)
Positions north or south of the equator (9)
Beaten out or shaped by hammering (7)
Region including China and Japan (3,4)
First Scottish, and first female, UK Poet Laureate (5,3,5)
Private school in Moray attended by Prince Charles (11)
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She was born at the Roslin Institute in 1996 (5,3,5)
The Lord --------, Scotland’s chief law officer (8)
Crisis that hit the Royal family in 1936 (10)
A painting done in watercolour on wet plaster (6)
The Royal (Dick) School of ---------- Studies (10) Pakistan’s longest river (5) John Wayne film released in 1969 (4,4)
William ------, Scottish brewer and politician, 1827-1913 (6) Blue -----, Roy Orbison hit (5)
River in Bulgaria and Greece (6)
Artist who attended Prestwick Academy (5,6) A stamp collector (11) René -------, French glassmaker, 1860-1945 (7)
Period sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson (10)
A measure of electrical energy (8-4)
Aintree’s most famous fence (7,5)
No, No, -------, musical featuring Tea For Two (7)
Divination by means of arrows (9)
Sacrament commemorating the Last Supper (9)
Long-distance walk between Kirk Yetholm and Edale (7,3)
Time when a military operation is scheduled to begin (1-4) Fruit of the oak (5) The ------- of Memnon, two giant statues (7)
Scottish botanist who introduced tea plants from China to India (6,7)
The study of general weather conditions (11)
Borders location of James Hogg monument (2,5,4)
Period of time before written records (10)
Name of Captain Kirk’s starship (10)
Home of BBC Natural History Unit (7)
Scots word for a female fortune-teller (8)
Band fronted by Midge Ure (8)
International organisation whose motto is Service Above Self (6)
Occupying position where playing the ball is allowed (6)
Synthetic resin used to coat non-stick pans (6)
A short sequence identifying a TV channel or radio station (5)
Whisky - -- --, Los Angeles music venue (1,2-2)
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