GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Crossword no. 918

ACROSS

1 One of the Three Musketeers (6)

4 Seafood pasta sauce (8)

10 Most southerly of the Munros (3,6)

11 Biblical measure (5)

12 Joan of Arc’s siege town (7)

13 Vatican chapel (7)

14 Fireside nook (5)

16 Make of car from Italy (8)

19 Orange colour in plants (8)

21 Large cetacean (5)

23 Giant sequoia (7)

25 Biblical sea (7)

27 Patron saint of Edinburgh (5)

28 Royal tour on foot (9)

29 Flower used for making soothing tea (8)

30 Blue-pencil official (6)

DOWN

1 Food of the gods (8)

2 Year’s recorded events (5)

3 Metallic period circa 1000BC (4,3)

5 Longest mountain range (5)

6 Cutting tooth (7)

7 Rock-garden plant (9)

8 Part of a stamen (6)

9 Clear thin soup (8)

15 Big win at bridge (5,4)

17 Sinister controlling person (8)

18 US college term (8)

20 American marsupial (7)

21 National monument near Stirling (7)

22 Causing extreme sadness (6)

24 Carpenter’s pin (5)

26 Animals in a pride (5)