SATURDAY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

The Big Press and Journal Saturday General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

8 Reynolds or Holbein, eg (8,7)

11 Brightly coloured garden bird (9)

15 Ruthless People and Taxi actor (5,6)

16 Soviet wartime Commissar for Foreign Affairs (7)

17 Broadleaf trees (4)

18 Transcendent phenomenon (4‑5,10)

19 Dutch ___, one giving well‑meaning advice (5)

21 French word meaning a collection of caged wild animals (9)

22 Eire and Ulster (7)

28 Irregular or rapid heartbeat (11)

30 Japanese island (3,4)

34 Lena ___, star of the 1943 musical Stormy Weather (5)

35 Spain’s highest mountain (5)

36 One of the twins in Through the Looking Glass (10)

39 Crimean War site (10)

40 2008 Pixar film about a pollution‑fighting robot (4‑1)

41 One of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean (5)

44 Epithet applied to the city of Rome (7)

45 Island location of Las Palmas (4,7)

49 Novel by the 19th‑century PM, Disraeli (7)

50 1950s singer with the Comets (4,5)

57 Clackmannanshire town (5)

58 Arithmetical scale (14,5)

60 City where Nansen’s ship Fram is on display (4)

61 Artist’s studio (7)

62 Amphibious serviceman (5,6)

63 Strait separating Europe from Asia (9)

64 French queen and wife of Louis XVI (5,10)

DOWN

1 Funky Gibbon group (7)

2 Ship found mysteriously abandoned in 1872 (4,7)

3 Outdoor jubilee event (6,5)

4 From an Indonesian island (8)

5 Hormone that helps suppress pain (9)

6 German port on the Baltic Sea (7)

7 Of a lens, having a broad field (4‑5)

9 Hindu or Buddhist mystical text (6)

10 First name of the author of Be Cool and Get Shorty (6)

12 Inventor of the miner’s safety lamp (4)

13 Evening church service (8)

14 First name of Juno star Ms Page (5)

20 As You Like It hero (7)

23 1950s Czech Olympic runner (7)

24 Berlin prison where Rudolf Hess was held (7)

25 Small culinary seed variety (7)

26 Fizzy American drink made with plant extracts (4,4)

27 Flora’s brother in The Turn of the Screw (5)

29 Small, brownish, Old World buntings (8)

31 Famous literary family (7)

32 Republic, capital Dakar (7)

33 Simon and Gar funkel song title and woman’s name (7)

37 Oldest of the classic horse races (2,5)

38 Belgian town in West Flanders (5)

42 Cooked in a wrapper (2,9)

43 Large body of water south of Toronto (4,7)

46 In Greek mythology, nymph changed into a bear by Zeus (8)

47 One of the three human body shapes (9)

48 Chinese gooseberry (4,5)

51 Period of time with 366 days (4,4)

52 Shoulder‑to‑elbow bone (7)

53 Gertrude ___, author of The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (5)

54 Ancient Greek city (6)

55 Nasal Friends character (6)

56 Canadian province bordering British Columbia (7)

59 Bridge used on a guitar (4)

ACROSS: 8 Portrait painter 11 Goldfinch 15 Danny Devito

16 Molotov 17 Elms 18 Near-death experience 19 Uncle

21 Menagerie 22 Ireland 28 Palpitation 30 Iwo Jima 34 Horne 35 Teide 36 Tweedledee 39 Sebastopol 40 Wall-e 41 Nevis 44 Eternal 45 Gran Canaria 49 Tancred 50 Bill Haley 57 Alloa 58 Multiplication table 60 Oslo 61 Atelier 62 Royal Marine

63 Bosphorus 64 Marie Antoinette

DOWN: 1 Goodies 2 Mary Celeste 3 Street party 4 Balinese

5 Endorphin 6 Rostock 7 Wide-angle 9 Tantra 10 Elmore

12 Davy 13 Compline 14 Ellen 20 Orlando 23 Zatopek

24 Spandau 25 Nigella 26 Root beer 27 Miles 29 Ortolans 31 Sitwell 32 Senegal 33 Cecilia 37 St Leger 38 Ypres 42 En papillote 43 Lake Ontario 46 Callisto 47 Ectomorph 48 Kiwi fruit 51 Leap year 52 Humerus 53 Stein 54 Sparta 55 Janice 56 Alberta 59 Capo