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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Scot who plays the 12th Doctor Who (5,7)
Spanish actor, the Skyfall villain (6,6)
Late co-founder of Apple Computers (5,4)
Character who loved wisely, but too well’ (7)
According to Mr Bumble, ‘the --- is an ass’ (3)
Anita Brookner novel, Hotel Du --- (3)
A river flowing through Falkirk (4)
A native of Scotland’s biggest city (10)
Australian nut-bearing evergreen tree (9)
Name given to Jesus by Isaiah (8)
2011 ITV series, part of The Oaks Trilogy (10)
Musical genre played by Judas Priest (5)
Author of The Mayor of Casterbridge (6,5)
1983 film starring Julie Walters and (9,4)
Miley Cyrus character, Hannah ------- (7)
The -------, band who released ‘ She’s not there’ in 1964 (7)
Scottish author of the Rebus novels (3,6)
Christmas carol that name-checks this paper? (4,3,6,6,4)
1969 road movie starring Peter Fonda (4,5)
First name of Madame Bovary’s author (7)
Japanese term for a giant wave (7)
Doctor Who, for example (4,9)
Adjective describing a type of quadrilateral (11)
The middle child of King Lear (5)
American motorcycle gang member (5,5)
Leonard Cohen sang long’ to her in 1967 (8)
Scottish author of The Wasp Factory (4,5)
Plastic with woven strands of material reinforcing it (10)
Anglo-Scottish actress ---Blair (4)
--- Reed, late American rock musician (3)
Nickname of the 34th US President (3)
Abbreviation created using initial letters (7)
London auction house, founded 1776 (9)
Scottish singer whose ‘baby takes the morning train’ (6,6)
Scottish actress and Loose Woman (6,6)
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A penny black, for example (7,5)
Irish band who Mondays’ (3,8,4)
Rock band, biggest hit: ‘Place your Hands’ (4)
Cloaks worn by the Roman military (7)
Italian town, birthplace of St Francis (6)
Arabian camel with only one hump (9)
Surname of Annie Hall’s director (5)
A form of endurance triathlon (7)
An object of religious importance (5)
Reggae band, No.1 in 1988 with ‘Don’t turn Around’ (5)
Scottish band for whom ‘Nothing Ever Happens’? (3,6)
Stage name of Maurice Micklewhite (7,5)
Scottish psychedelic folk group formed in 1966 (3,10,6,4) Capital city of Turkey (6) In America, The Pelican State (9)
Another word for a descendant (5)
Scottish term for footless stockings (7)
Sioux chief involved in the defeat of Custer (5,5)
Prime Minister preceded and succeeded by Wilson (5)
Isherwood novel, film version starred Colin Firth (1,6,3) Flowers or gloves (9) Former Scottish county, now part of Aberdeenshire (15)
Protein essential for the growth of horns (7)
Metric unit, equivalent to about 1.75 pints (5)
Another name for The Hebrides (7,5)
Scottish jockey, retired in 1996 aged 54 (6,6)
Goldie Hawn film, ----Becomes Her (5)
Satire written by Sir Thomas More in 1516 (6)
In astronomy, the measure of a star’s brightness (9)
Glasgow-set film based on the life of Paul Ferris (3,3,3)
Old term for sailors from India (7)
Country in which Mozart was born (7)
A golfer whose shots veer to the right (6)
Scottish term for a young child (5)
The female child of one’s sibling (5)
1996 Coen brothers black comedy (5)
International bank with London HQ (abbrev.) (4)
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