General knowledge crossword

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Scotland's national clinical director (5,6)

Great ----/----/----, route through Alps (2,7,4)

Perthshire village of Fortingall has an ancient one (3,4) Activity known as spelunking in America (9)

French glassmaker (7) Meaning of U as film rating (9) Short pastoral poem (5)

E.g. River City (4,5) Nickname for Los Angeles or Hollywood (2-2,4) Informal name for Mars (3,6) Country whose official language is Hebrew (6)

Ancient Egyptian form of paper (7)

In medicine, to breathe in (8) Synonym for anonymous (8) Italian mountain range (9) Adjective associated with 1890s (7)

Dougie ----, singer-songwriter of Caledonia fame (7)

Young salmon after parr stage (5) South Esk estuary and nature reserve (8,5)

Informal term for famous make of violin (5)

Substance with characteristic reactions, used as chemical test (7)

Acid present in milk fat and coconut and palm oils (7) Quadrilateral with four angles (9)

Member of radio audience (8) In arithmetic, opposite of subtraction (8)

---- flax, hieroglyph (7) In grammar, opposite of passive (6)

Very large hairy spider (9) Cyprus's second-biggest city (8) E.g. Antonine or Hadrian's (5,4) Animals for which North Ronaldsay is famous (5)

The ancient past (9)

---- Bloom, protagonist of James Joyce's Ulysses (7) Plaster mixed with gravel, used on outside walls (9)

E. g. Janey Godley or Kevin Bridges (5-2)

Classic sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (7,3,3) Top bird of prey in Scottish countryside (6,5) right

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BBC Scotland weather presenter (3,6)

Another name for merganser, fish-eating duck (7)

E.g sciatic or zygomatic (5) Night services, especially Anglican Church (9) Synonym for snifter (6) Ancient empire in Asia Minor and Syria (7)

Tintin's dog (5)

Pure dead ----, slogan once used by Prestwick Airport (9) General ---- House at east end of Edinburgh's Princes Street (8) Duane and Gregg founded The ---- Brothers Band (6) Isabel ----, character created by Alexander McCall Smith (9) Terrorist network once led by Osama bin Laden (2-5)

Vedi Napoli e poi muori, proverb (3,6,3,3)

Pair of spectacles with a handle (9)

E.g. Evelyn Glennie (13) Scots term derived from Gaelic for Saxon (9)

An overtone in music (8) Teeth also called bicuspids (9) Hard smooth peppermint sweet (7)

Plant also called euphrasia (9) Command to troops to l ook ahead (4,5)

Type of football game played on oval pitch (10,5)

----/---- What, Boyzone hit (2,6) Japanese portable barbecue (7) Central American republic (5,4) Village at confluence of Clyde and Elvan Water (9) Classic novel by Nikolai Gogol (4,5)

Chopin's Etude Op. 10, No. 3 (9) Village in Ayrshire, mountain in Queensland and Antarctic (9) The Deil's ----, rock pool near Comrie (8)

Pro ----, Latin phrase meaning for the time being (7)

Variety of souchong tea (7) Another word for a hooley (7) Finnan ----, Scottish smoked haddock (6)

A chalk-like crayon (6)

---- Hunt, Mission: Impossible hero played by Tom Cruise (5) Informal term for event involving seismic waves (5) in