GENERAL KNOWLEDGE crossword

no. 695

ACROSS

1 Cabbage with an edible turniplike stem (8)

5 Self-government or independence for India (6)

9 One skilled in conjuring or sorcery (8)

10 Garment or shoe easily or

quickly put on or off (4-2)

11 (Hist.) Spiked barrier across a

road to obstruct the enemy (8) 12 Piece of wood, paper etc. left

over from a larger piece (6)

14 Lanarkshire river that is a tributary

of the River Nethan (5, 5)

18 Elegance in literary works or

artistic style (10)

22 Violent or damaging disorder or

chaos (6)

23 Highly seasoned Polish

sausage (8)

24 Hypnotic state resembling

sleep (6)

25 One insisting on trifles of

behaviour, ceremony etc. (8) 26 Cat especially adept at

catching rodents (6)

27 Global computer network providing information and communication facilities (8)

DOWN

1 Freestyle fighting in the martial arts (6)

2 Exodus of Mohammad from Mecca to Medina in 622AD (6) 3 Archaic term for a medical prescription (6)

4 Stretch of high moorland between Rannoch Moor and Glen Etive (5,5)

6 Game birds, especially aquatic ones (8)

7 Being excessively greedy (8)

8 Critical point in time (8)

13 Where in Scotland Latin’s not unusual after start of education (4, 6)

15 Short single-edged curved sword, broadest at the point end (8)

16 Remote and harsh peninsula in

Lochaber (8)

17 One making undue pretensions

to wisdom (8)

19 Slender church spire (6)

20 Large oceanic game fish of warm seas, with long upper jaw (6)

21 Piece of shell, bone etc.used as

a lip ornament (6)