CROSSWORD The Big

Saturday General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

10 Absolutely thrilled (7,2,5)

12 Homo sapiens (5,5)

15 From an old Czech region (8)

16 Little Women author (6,3,6)

17 Lancashire’s colour ful flower emblem (3,4)

19 Iron ___, ferrous shavings (7) 20 Metric unit of measurement (9) 24 Champions (9)

25 First name of actor Mr Coltrane (6) 26 Heroine of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (5)

30 The Man from UNCLE hero (8,4) 32 Marlene Dietrich film featuring

Falling in Love Again (3,4,5) 33 Qatar’s currency unit (5)

34 Style of narrow 1950s tie (8)

35 USA, eg (10)

39 Lizard‑like amphibian (10) 40 1976 Abba hit (8)

41 Barney Rubble’s cartoon wife (5) 43 Traditional Irish musical instrument (7,5)

46 1965 Number One hit for the Rolling Stones (12)

47 Adversary (5)

48 Nickname of Harold Bird, retired cricket umpire (6)

49 English Civil War protagonists (9) 54 Hercule Poirot’s secretary (4,5) 55 1859 Italian battle that gave its name to a reddish‑purple colour (7) 56 Actress in the 1933 film, King Kong (3,4)

59 1956 Elvis Presley hit (10,5) 61 Foot device for walking in the Arctic (8)

63 Former England and Chelsea defender (6,4)

64 Location of the ascending, transverse and sigmoid colons (5,9)

DOWN

1 Affirming by negating the contrary (7) 2 Island to which Bonnie Prince Charlie fled (4)

3 Term for the number thirteen (6,5) 4 Gordon Sumner’s stage name (5) 5 Wife of William IV (8)

6 Cecil B DeMille epic in which Claudette Colbert bathes in asses’ milk (3,4,2,3,5)

7 Market town eight miles south‑west of Aylesbury (5)

8 Television industry award (4)

9 Show Boat composer (6,4) 11 Egyptian god with a jackal’s head (6) 13 Lady Hamilton’s lover (6) 14 Theory first expounded by Darwin (7,9)

18 1984 Queen hit (5,2,2) 21 Utopian (5)

22 High street (4,4) 23 Decorative items (6,4)

27 Night‑time lamps for a ship (10,6) 28 London concert venue (5,8,4) 29 Ancient Jordanian city (5) 31 Region beyond the Earth’s atmosphere (5,5) 36 Architectural support (8)

37 Type of run at cricket (9) 38 Abraham’s wife (5)

42 Actress in The Wrestler (6,5)

44 Catkins (5‑5)

45 First name of Spanish film director Almodovar (5)

50 Caribbean islands (8) 51 Warren ___, Bonnie and Clyde star (6) 52 Priam’s son (6)

53 Singer with the album Hard Candy (7) 57 Nut tree producing filberts (5) 58 Justin Timberlake’s former boy band (1,4) 60 2015 film starring Brie Larson (4) 62 Nineteenth‑dynasty pharaoh (4)