GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

ACROSS

1 See 26dn (6)

4 Stone at Delphi assumed to mark the centre of the earth (8)

9 Refinement or elegance (6)

10 Bumptious male driver of

fast,high-powered cars (3,5)

12 First performance of a play or

showing of a film (8)

13 (Scottish) Attendant on a hunting or

fishing expedition (6)

15 (Scottish) Wooden peg driven into

a wall to hold a nail (4)

16 (Scottish) A stingless species of

bumblebee (5,5)

19 Pasta made in long ribbons (10)

20 Another term for altitude

sickness (4)

23 Small inexpensive restaurant (6)

25 Fish with a long poisonous serrated spine on its tail (8)

27 Minute aquatic crustacean with a hinged shell (8)

28 Fixed,unnatural grimace or grin (6) 29 Oriental tobacco pipe with a long,flexible tube (8)

30 Soft mineral used to make plaster of Paris,cement,chalk etc. (6)

DOWN

1 Minute free-living or parasitic crustacean (7)

2 (Scot. – 17/18th cent.) Woman's sleeved nightdress (9)

3 Where in Scotland man took odd selfie (6)

5 Assembly held for debate in Anglo-saxon times (4)

6 Wife of Leontes,king of Sicilia in The Winter's Tale (8)

7 Informal term for one's usual pub (5) 8 Room or hatch from which meals are dished up (7)

11 Long cord securing a hawk during training (7)

14 Comment at the finish of a book or chapter (7)

17 Ancient Greek city in Egypt's Nile River delta (9)

18 Organisation's involvement or contact in the community (8)

19 Protein that is the chief constituent of silk (7)

21 Herbaceous plant with often white or yellow floweors (7) 22 Hatred,hostility,unfriendliness etc. (6) 24 Indian lute with long neck and rounded body (5)

26 And 1ac English dramatist,actor and composer known for his witty comedies (4,6)