Giant general knowledge crossword

Apologies to all our regular crossword fans for the wrong grid being inserted last week – please find last week’s puzzle below and this week’s on page 53

ACROSS

1 Shearer who was a Scottish ballerina (5)

4 Aries and Taurus, for example (4,5)

9 In Scotland, 0141 and 0131? (4,5)

14 Deepest freshwater body in Scotland (4,5)

15 What one might eat when shown up? (6,3)

16 Zom-rom-com film, _____ of the Dead (5)

17 Glasgow district, postcode G41 or G42 (11)

18 Ford Coppola Vietnam War film (10,3)

19 Adjective meaning not reproducing with male and female gametes (7)

21 Resort town on Majorca’s SW coast (7)

22 Phrase: ‘Don’t mock the _____’ (9)

24 Film with DeVito as The Penguin (6,7)

27 Instrument for listening to the heart (11)

28 Term for an allied soldier in Burma (7)

31 South African golfer Ernest (3) 32 In French, the word for friend (3) 33 In German, the neuter word for ‘the’ (3)

34 Verb meaning to delete by wiping (5)

36 Theme tune of F1 coverage, The _____ (5)

37 Film with Michael Caine as an alcoholic professor (9,4) 39 Frankie who sang Rawhide (5) 40 Brand of mineral water that’s innocent backwards (5) 42 Grampa Simpson’s first name (3) 43 In French, the word for end (3) 44 Informal term for a scientific workplace (3)

45 Term meaning put into code (7) 46 Noun meaning distinction (3-8) 48 English tenor, released The Voice in 2000 (7,6)

51 Cosmetic Agnetha Fältskog often applied in blue (9)

52 Term meaning has nothing to do with (7)

55 Hairstyle worn by Amy Winehouse (7)

57 Panamanian general charged with drug trafficking (6,7)

59 Informal term for Ireland,

The _____ (7,4)

61 Detective show, Rosemary and _____ (5)

62 Show written by Ricky Gervais (3,6)

63 Informal term for bird-watchers (9)

64 US term for carbonated waters (4,5)

65 Scottish uni Prince William attended (2,7)

66 Scottish singer Boyle who ‘dreamed a dream’ (5)

DOWN

1 Joan Hart who played the witch Sabrina (7)

2 Adjective meaning wrong (9) 3 Verb meaning to let in (5) 4 Jocular term for a writer (9) 5 Word created by using initial letters of other words (7)

6 Type of pupils attending

St. Trinian’s (11)

7 1976 comedy car race film,

The _____ Rally (7)

8 2007 Paul Torday novel, _____ in the Yemen (6,7)

9 Term for a masculine leader of a group (5,4)

10 1998 Gene Hackman and Will Smith conspiracy thriller (5,2,3,5)

11 Wooden containers for beer etc. (5)

12 What one holding two passports might possess? (4,11)

13 What 31a might use to get out of a bunker? (4,5)

20 Nationality of dictator Idi Amin (7) 23 Newspaper supporting the homeless, The Big _____ (5)

24 Phrase: ‘ A woman needs a man like a fish needs a _____’ (7)

25 Band, released The Love Cats in 1986 (3,4)

26 Shop selling office supplies (9) 29 “_____, I know you do. I think about you day and night, it’s only right.” (The Turtles) (7,2,3,3)

30 Film with Michael Sheen as Brian Clough (3,6,6)

33 Stanley Matthews’ nickname, The Wizard of _____ (7)

35 Team Liverpool FC plays in its derbies (7)

38 Officer Zola supported in J’accuse...! (6,7)

39 Scottish body of water in which Inishail is located (4,3)

41 Term for a female forest sprite (5) 44 1945 Billy Wilder addiction film, The _____ (4,7)

46 Adjective meaning operated by compressed air (9)

47 Films Pathé were famous for during WWII (9)

49 “_____ gave us power, then work came and made us free.” (Manic Street Preachers) (9)

50 Old term for unmarried and elderly women (9)

53 Colombian singer, released ‘Whenever, Wherever’ in 2002 (7)

54 Criminal organisation in the Bond films (7)

56 US transcendentalist philosopher (7)

58 The heaviest swords used in fencing (5)

60 Informal term for a DJ’s turntables (5)