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12 Aberdeen-born singer whose
hits include Why (5,6)
14 What I stands for in UNICEF (13) 16 ---- Court Palace in London (7) 17 Femur (5,4)
18 ---- of Cambridge is also Coun
tess of Strathearn (7)
19 E.g. Robert Owen at New
Lanark (4,5)
20 Point on surface above focus of
earthquake (9)
21 A New ---- for the Chapel of Kil
marnock, Burns poem (5)
22 Meaning of German word danke
(6)
24 Former coach of Andy Murray
(4,5)
26 Very fine spider threads (8)
30 ---- Moore, Irish folk sing
er-songwriter (7)
32 Worms with unsegmented cylin
drical bodies (9)
34 Swinglike apparatus used by
acrobats (7)
36 World Heritage Site in Athens (9) 38 Hebridean location of Balivanich
village (9)
40 ---- and the Swan, poem by W.
B. Yeats (4)
42 Antonym for under (4)
43 Metal whose chemical symbol is
Mn (9)
44 Rhodesian ----, breed of dog (9) 46 ---- Gish, "First Lady of Ameri
can Cinema" (7)
47 Rising or in the ---- (9)
50 Commuters take turns to drive in
this arrangement (3,4)
51 Gavin ----, he plays Boaby in
Still Game (8)
54 February 2 is ---- Day in N.
America (9)
56 Meaning of Scots word drouth
(6)
60 Adjective for situation where
one's bound to lose (2-3)
62 Sport requiring parachute (9)
64 ----'s, Scotland's national
school for deaf children (9)
66 Type of nuclear reaction (7)
67 French adjective for food
cooked with onions (9)
68 Solve or exercise (4,3)
69 Train service that connected
Paris and Istanbul (6,7)
70 Scotland's health secretary (5,6)
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1 E.g. Hannah Fry or Alan Turing
(13)
2 Hard substance covering crown
of tooth (6)
3 ---- Summit on A74(M) (8)
4 Italian baroque sculptor and
architect (7)
5 The Deil's Awa Wi' the ----man
(6)
6 Occupation represented by stat
ue in Nairn (8)
7 What C stands for in SSPCA (7) 8 Californian city near Mexican
border (3,5)
9 It involves spasm of diaphragm
(6)
10 Early style of bowling in cricket
(8)
11 ---- Close, Ian Rankin novel (11) 13 Scotland's third verdict (3,6)
15 Adjective for Russian imperial
eagle, say (3-6)
23 Meaning of first two letters in
ATOL (3,6)
25 African country whose capital is
Windhoek (7)
27 Something trifling (5,4)
28 Flowering plant sometimes
called sowbread (8)
29 First few digits on debit or credit
card identify this (6)
31 Informal term for extremely
wealthy (5-4)
33 Ruined Welsh abbey, close to
border with England (7)
34 Passage connected to lachry
mal glands (4,4)
35 HMS ----, Cook's ship on first
voyage of discovery (9)
37 Day that's dimanche in French
(6)
39 A variety of the mineral beryl (7) 41 Personnel reduced to minimum
(8,5)
45 Orkney sea stack (3,3,2,3)
48 Hormone produced by adrenal
cortex (9)
49 Norway's third-largest city (9)
52 Term for a crofting community
(8)
53 Spartan leader and Shakespear
ean character (8)
55 Scottish Conservative and ---
Party (8)
57 Metonym for Scottish Parlia
ment (8)
58 One-eyed giant in Greek mythol
ogy (7)
59 Abominable ----, also called yeti
(7)
61 Lady ----, wrote Will Ye No'
Come Back Again? (6)
63 Japanese hostess (6)
65 Robert Burns was Jean
Armour's (6)