GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Crossword no. 917

ACROSS

1 Second-largest city in Pakistan (6) 4 Banjo-like instruments (8)

10 Channel 4 word game (9)

11 Chef’s hat (5)

12 Name of several popes (7)

13 Loch and river in the north-west

of Skye (7)

14 Eighth Greek letter (5)

16 Ocean called ‘the Pond’ (8)

19 On-screen fund-raising event (8) 21 Environmental activist

Ms Thunberg (5)

23 Chimer worn by cattle (7)

25 Scottish word meaning

‘to suspect’ (7)

27 Concerning birds (5)

28 Speeded-up (photography) (4-5) 29 Catholic strings of beads (8)

30 Enclosure for livestock (6)

DOWN

1 Churchyard portal (8)

2 Name given to the target in

curling (5)

3 Masked Singer judge (4,3)

5 Regal chess pieces (5)

6 From Riga? (7)

7 Black confectionery made

from a root (9)

8 Private eye (6)

9 Person of much and varied

learning (8)

15 Song from The Sound of

Music (9)

17 Athletics event (4,4)

18 Derbyshire town famous for

a kind of tart (8)

20 Queen consort of Edward I (7) 21 Great Italian physicist (7)

22 Chocolate-and-cream pastry (6) 24 Jewish potato pancake (5)

26 Part of a shoe above the sole (5)