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 war time Commissar for Foreign Af fairs (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 Ir regular or rapid heart beat (11)

30 Japanese island (3,4)

34 Lena ___, star of the 1943 musical Stor my 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‑centur y 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 Ar tist’s studio (7)

62 Amphibious ser viceman (5,6)

63 Strait separating Europe from Asia (9)

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

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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 Hor mone that helps suppress pain (9)

6 Ger man por t 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 Shor ty (6)

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

13 Evening church ser vice (8)

14 First name of Juno star Ms Page (5)

20 As You Like It hero (7)

23 1950s Czech Olympic r unner (7)

24 Berlin prison where Rudolf Hess was held (7)

25 Small culinar y 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 literar y 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 Lar ge 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 Ger tr ude ___, 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)