General knowledge crossword
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1 Term for business trading online
and via shops (6-3-6)
9 Motor racing circuit in Fife (9)
15 The surrounding area (8)
16 Its antlers have 12 points (5,4) 17 Sharp bend in road (3-3)
18 Village near Eilean Donan castle
(6)
19 Word meaning previously men
tioned (9)
20 Period immediately after sunset
(8)
21 In political jargon, a spad is a
special ---- (7)
23 Walt ----, US poet (7)
25 French dish scorned in To A Hag
gis (9)
28 Informal term for very famous
person (8)
30 Song from West Side Story (5) 31 Philosophical doctrine David
Hume expounded (10)
34 Horse-drawn carriage with fold
ing top (6)
36 Device to keep aircraft on set
course (9)
38 Collections of historical docu
ments (8)
40 Synonym for remedial (11)
41 Transfer of tiny grains from anther
to stigma (11)
42 Cumbri a n village where
Wordsworth lived (8)
43 Type of telescope (9)
44 Inchmahome ----, on island in
Lake of Menteith (6)
45 Part of Arctic Ocean (7,3)
47 ---- Davis Jr, member of the Rat
Pack (5)
49 Person from country whose cap
ital is Khartoum (8)
51 Anemometer (4,5)
54 Swift-running African bird (7)
56 Game or village near Dumbarton
(7)
60 ---- Winterson, Oranges Are Not
The Only Fruit author (8)
61 The High ----, 1960s western TV
series (9)
63 Scots term for exhausted or
slightly unwell (6)
64 CH stands for Companion of ---
(6)
65 Amphitheatre in Rome (9)
66 E.g Akhenatan and Hatshepsut
(8)
67 Description of roughly 13% of
Scots (3-6)
68 Protest song of US civil rights
movement (2,5,8)
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2 Gorge near Braemar (4,2,3)
3 Dry red wine from Tuscany (7)
4 Meaning of Scots word reek (5)
5 Capital of the Bahamas (6)
6 PC ----, Oor Wullie's adversary
(7)
7 Person who composes simple
poems (9)
8 Location of Clackmannanshire
Council HQ (5)
10 In grammar, a word such as not
(7)
11 Something golfer uses (6,3)
12 John ----, snooker's Wizard of
Wishaw (7)
13 Person from principality in the
Alps (15)
14 Piece of music intended to train
or test player (5)
22 Synonym for retinue (9)
24 Type of thick embossed wallpa
per (9)
26 Elaborately decorated quality
(10)
27 Author of Anna Karenina (3,7)
29 Person whose name is on letter
or parcel (9)
30 Any of the bones between ankle
and toes (10)
32 To steal someone else's work or
ideas (10)
33 A doctor who works directly with
patients (9)
35 Election system abbreviated as
AV (11,4)
37 People opposed to war (9)
39 Scots term for type of large black
mussel (6-3)
46 Italian restaurant (9)
48 City in western Morocco (9)
50 Female singer-songwriter from
Banff (5,4)
52 Faslane's fictional counterpart in
TV's Vigil (7)
53 Aonach Eagach ridge is on its
north side (4,3)
55 Sugar or syrup heated until it
turns brown (7)
57 Matt ----, actor and former Top
Gear co-host (7)
58 Deposit left by evaporation of
water containing lime (5)
59 City in northern Syria (6)
62 Passage between rows of seats
(5)
63 E.g. blue, minke or humpback (5)