General knowledge crossword
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Stone feature on Old Course at St Andrews (7,6)
.... Falls, in Bernese Oberland region (11)
Machine using a CPU (8) Lizard with ability to change colour (9)
Karen ----, Scottish comedian and actress (6)
Fine type of pottery (9)
To remove errors from hardware or software (5)
Hybrid of tangerine and grapefruit (7)
Munro near Tomintoul (3,4) E.g. Novichok (5,5) Synonym for diatribe (6) Castro's second-in-command in Cuban Revolution (3,7) What C stands for in C-section in surgery (9) Cartographers make them (4) River running through Prague (6) Synonym for escapee (9) Robbie ----, Scots actor, plays Hagrid in Potter films (8) An opening move in chess (6) E.g. Darjeeling (6,3)
---- Miley, Scottish swimmer (6) Italian island (8)
Type of mathematical equation (3-6)
Person confused through old age (6)
Indian dish made with split pulses (4)
US state whose largest city is Minneapolis (9) Surveying i nstrument with a rotating telescope (10) Location of Grampian Transport Museum (6)
Capital of St Kitts and Nevis (10) Scotch ----, chilli peppers (7) ---- bells, orchestral instrument (7)
Polymeric amide that can be formed into fibres (5)
Soft rock consisting largely of talc (9)
Type of sandwich biscuit topped with icing and cherry (6) Adjective for type of reasoning (9) Urquhart Castle overlooks it (4,4) Small bird that searches for insects in woodland (11) He became Langholm's first freeman in 1972 (4,9)
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Makin' ----, song Eddie Cantor first made a hit (7)
Islay sea loch (9)
---- Shaw, jazz clarinettist (5) Orkney parish with ruins of Earl's Palace (6)
It's held in censer for religious ceremonies (7)
It could be endocrine or exocrine (5)
Space below main emblem on reverse of coin or medal (7) UK's biggest is Ross, Skye and Lochaber (12)
Paul ----, starred in Yes Minister/ Yes Prime Minister (9)
Once a large playing marble, now slang term for head (5) Edinburgh suburb and island (7) In biology, a selective barrier (8) E.g. appendectomy (9)
Era that ended in 1901 (9) Painter of The Night Watch (9) Capital of Senegal (5) Manuscript handwritten by person named as its author (9) Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words (9) Synonym for accord (9) Emmeline ----, suffragette (9) Glasgow venue, formerly Clyde Auditorium (9) Perthshire hill mentioned Shakespeare's Macbeth (9) Welsh seaside resort (9) Dickens novel set during Gordon Riots of 1780 (7,5)
Scots term for a furrow (5) Location of ossicles in the body (6,3)
To oversew with interlocking stitch (8)
Synonym for laird (9)
---- Crescent, street in sitcom Two Doors Down (7)
Latin phrase for adjournment with no resumption date (4,3) Town in New Mexico associated with ufology (7)
"Lord Haw-Haw" was last person in UK executed for it (7) Gustav ----, Austrian composer (6)
The ---- of Lammermoor, Scott novel (5)
Black Tie White ----, David Bowie album (5)
Andrew ----, played Manuel in Fawlty Towers (5) in