General knowledge crossword
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11 Council with Greenock HQ (10) 13 English name for French order of
merit (6,2,6)
16 First book of the Bible (7)
17 Use of confrontational methods
in support of a cause (9)
18 German port on Baltic coast (7) 19 Lord----, title of Scotland's most
senior judge (9)
20 ---- Murray, female medical pio
neer on BoS £100 note (5)
21 Royal Highland Show site (9)
22 Port and resort in N-E Italy (6)
24 A puzzle or problem (5-6)
27 One of the many small parts of
raspberry (6)
31 Capable of being dissolved (7) 33 Very tall, long-haired dog (9)
36 Pistes (3,4)
38 Isolated hill rising from plain,
"island mountain" in German (9) 39 Person who leases property from
a tenant (9)
40 Lump or knot on tree (5)
42 Shakespeare's theatre (5)
43 Sign placed above or below letter
to change pronunciation (9)
44 Talkative (9)
45 Illicit liquor shop (7)
46 Arid region of S-E Iran (3,6)
47 To wash or purify (7)
48 Scots term for unattractive per
son or thing (6)
50 E.g. Ayrshires or Friesians (5,6) 54 E.g. Pittodrie and Ibrox (6)
58 French phrase describing a
chess move (2,7)
60 Colourless fluid containing white
blood cells (5)
62 Small German sausage (9)
64 Department whose capital is Bor
deaux (7)
65 The consequences of an event (9) 66 Munro connected to Ben More
Assynt (7)
67 Person who studies human soci
eties and cultures (14)
68 Singer-songwriter from Alford,
Aberdeenshire (5,5)
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1 Cocktail invented at Raffles Hotel
(9,5)
2 ---- Murray, she's a Scottish run
ning legend (6)
3 Roman name for Odysseus (7)
4 It measures distance travelled by
wheeled vehicle (8)
5 Ingredient in borscht soup (8)
6 Capital of Austria (6)
7 Beatles song featured on Dur
ness memorial (2,2,4)
8 Dwarf ornamental tree (6)
9 Organist uses it to imitate performance on another instrument (4,4)
10 Woodland garden by Loch Fyne
(10)
12 Slavonic l anguage written in
Cyrillic alphabet (7)
14 Fodder (6)
15 It could be treble or bass (4)
23 Significant event or old distance
marker (9)
25 Artist who provides pictures for
books etc (11)
26 A 43ac found in 34dn (5,6)
28 Instrument also called pluviome
ter (4,5)
29 Person who relies on another for
financial support (9)
30 Things understood by only a
small number of people (9)
32 Summer house with fine view,
Italian-derived term (9)
33 Songbird named after how part
of its body moves (7)
34 A frequent visitor (7)
35 Disc used in board game (7)
37 Not decorated (9)
41 Island group that includes Barba
dos (6,8)
45 Scottish actor who plays Jamie
Fraser in Outlander (3,7)
49 Type of jade, also called kidney
stone (8)
51 Love, ----, film featuring Gregor
Fisher (8)
52 Pad of lint pressed on to part of
body (8)
53 Opera by Puccini (2,6)
55 Members of a people living in
Botswana (7)
56 Type of shoe or boot (4-2)
57 ---- Rifkind, former Scottish Sec
retary (7)
59 Loch with Strontian near its head
(6)
60 2012 hit for Scottish DJ Calvin
Harris (4,2)
61 Scots term for sea mist (4)
63 A deep narrow gorge (6)