| ad ...., 2019 space thriller with brad pitt | 43 |
| coastal town with a large-capacity racecourse | 45 |
| the main antagonist in shakespeare's 'othello' | 46 |
| surgical instrument used for opening veins | 42 |
| to stimulate to action | 22 |
| in the land of the blind, the ... man is king | 45 |
| childish word for a toe | 23 |
| horror novella by neil gaiman adapted into a stop-motion film in 2009 | 69 |
| mouth organ | 11 |
| allan ..., protagonist of the novel 'king solomon's mines' | 58 |
| activity for which harry houdini was renowned | 45 |
| the kessock bridge spans this body of water | 43 |
| pulped material sometimes used for sculpting | 44 |
| cards allowing one to perform a 28 down | 39 |
| town on the south-eastern outskirts of glasgow | 46 |
| area of post-war construction in glasgow where new streets were named after scots islands | 89 |
| old term for pupils | 19 |
| group of cells using a paste rather than liquid electrolyte | 59 |
| outing where one ends at the start | 34 |
| come forward | 12 |
| facial feature that could be walrus, pencil or handlebar | 56 |
| erskine ..., author of 'the riddles of the sands' | 49 |
| one of two brothers in lewis carroll's 'through the looking-glass' | 66 |
| liquid food dish made from the posterior extremity of a bovine | 62 |
| cathedral in the city once known as eboracum | 44 |
| walkers | 7 |
| dark grey waterfowl after which a north sea oilfield was named | 62 |
| 'the ... with the lamp', nickname for florence nightingale | 58 |
| witnesses | 9 |
| informal word meaning terrific based on the sound of three words | 64 |
| singer whose first uk leg of her eras tour was held in edinburgh | 64 |
| pyramidal mountain in the alps straddling the border between switzerland and italy | 82 |
| to injure | 9 |
| surname of the swedish scientist who formalised the way of classifying organisms | 80 |
| alimentary canal | 16 |
| race-meeting for boats | 22 |
| argyll and bute peninsula, subject of a wings song | 50 |
| feeling of revulsion | 20 |
| idiom meaning occasionally | 26 |
| to adjust back to an environment | 32 |
| in usual circumstances | 22 |
| medicine that relieves pain | 27 |
| act as stand-in on behalf of | 28 |
| child's expression for a farmyard animal | 40 |
| person skilled in the science of plants | 39 |
| small support for a plant | 25 |
| area where a freshwater river meets a sea | 41 |
| it might prefix conductor, giant or human | 41 |
| snooker player from glasgow who won the 2004 uk championship | 60 |
| filled pastry dish | 18 |
| sudden downpour over a small area | 33 |
| laboratory glassware used in experiments | 40 |
| member of an ancient people living in the north of scotland | 59 |
| nearest town to the gleneagles hotel in perth and kinross | 57 |
| to admit that one is wrong | 26 |
| rough edge on metal | 19 |
| uptight; emphasised | 19 |
| way of ending a letter | 22 |
| turncoat | 8 |
| film [2000] starring drew barrymore, lucy liu and cameron diaz as private investigators | 87 |
| rain-clouds | 11 |
| one of two identical detectives in the 'tintin' series by herg' | 63 |
| originally, the soldiers of cavalry in hungary in the 15th century | 66 |
| epic war film starring charlton heston based on a siege in sudan | 64 |
| small body of running water | 27 |
| departures | 10 |
| specialist in bone manipulation and massage | 43 |
| andrew ..., composer behind musicals such as 'cats' and 'evita' | 63 |
| troops not heavily armed fighting in front of the main body of an army | 70 |
| largest public reference building in europe, located in glasgow | 63 |
| plants of the calendula genus with orange-yellow flowers | 56 |
| Send back watch | 15 |
| Thump American poet | 19 |
| Roofer on top of skyscraper afterwards | 38 |
| Begins with small open pies | 27 |
| Indicated it's sharp | 20 |
| Each era's terrible complaint | 29 |
| Greet small turtles? How odd | 28 |
| Nimble porter gets round soldier | 32 |
| Church in comic conversation | 28 |
| Short emotional poem Cyril composed | 35 |
| Jo's bone is broken in plastic surgery | 38 |
| Champion setter perhaps | 23 |
| Dealer sends back red art | 25 |
| Blue study to cause sorrow | 26 |
| Choral work from remote territory | 33 |
| Liar not disposed to be in the dock | 35 |
| Raise two inner points when making tea | 38 |
| Force wife to take it easy | 26 |
| Purposes of the articles | 24 |
| It is petty when it is involved with rival | 42 |
| Question a show-off | 19 |
| Vast seas wrecked canoes | 24 |
| Last to accept point of view in confusion | 41 |
| Succeed in an exam | 18 |
| Cantaloupe or honeydew, eg | 26 |
| Rub out, delete | 15 |
| Unclean | 7 |
| Self-denying | 12 |
| Knee-highs | 10 |
| Local authority regulation | 26 |
| Small pulpy tropical fruit | 26 |
| Intense fire | 12 |
| Group of trees | 14 |
| Concerning calorie intake | 25 |
| Move a very small distance at a time | 36 |
| Raps, hits | 10 |
| Armed citizenry | 15 |
| Rub against | 11 |
| Greatly | 7 |
| Thick jumper | 12 |
| Common soup flavour | 19 |
| Gas we need to breathe | 22 |
| Alongside one another | 21 |
| Delicate in health | 18 |
| At low cost | 11 |
| Part of a glove | 15 |
| Bring about | 11 |
| Large tea dispenser | 19 |
| Strong rope or chain | 20 |
| ...... Richie, singer of Hello | 30 |
| Produce | 7 |
| Ordinary, average man in the street | 35 |
| Seasons | 7 |
| Components of a wall | 20 |
| Neither | 7 |
| Burdened equine? | 16 |
| Battlefields | 12 |
| Work tables | 11 |
| Inappropriate quality | 21 |
| Prevents from taking part | 25 |
| Chicken in a thick white sauce | 30 |
| Witticism | 9 |
| Pitiable | 8 |
| Nursery-rhyme character who 'kissed the girls and made them cry' | 64 |
| Toffee-nosed people | 19 |
| Cattle farmer | 13 |
| Through fine art, has to connect with the ground | 48 |
| Holy man has unusual hiding place | 33 |
| Get urn repaired ... it's most important | 40 |
| Excel? Almost certainly on way through mountains | 48 |
| Footnote beside second muscle | 29 |
| Settle down to make music | 25 |
| Exhaustive event is in disarray | 31 |
| Cutter coming out of Walmer now | 31 |
| Fleeced getting organ into outbuilding | 38 |
| Canteen grasped by semolina aficionado [inits] | 46 |
| Constrict noisy god | 19 |
| Loud ostentation down to driver | 31 |
| Venom enables comeback of sea creature | 38 |
| Reorder back stove | 18 |
| In reserve, separately | 22 |
| Crop protector makes Mark cower anew | 36 |
| Sailor in awful rain in French sea | 34 |
| A diversion on Father's Day | 27 |
| Fully satisfy smart set regularly | 33 |
| Six balls worth being smashed in defeat | 39 |
| Inelegant, wild, wild rose | 26 |
| In front of stake? | 18 |
| Wine secrets in affordable housing | 34 |
| Disgusting thing to negotiate junction? | 39 |
| Sign car diagram | 16 |
| Duck down initially with cad following | 38 |
| Turn a craft round with nobleman inside, he's shouting the odds | 63 |
| Third Greek letter | 18 |
| Religious nonconformist | 23 |
| Having great difficulty | 23 |
| Popular yogurt flavour | 22 |
| US president before Trump | 25 |
| More intoxicated | 16 |
| Inexpensive, but of dire quality | 32 |
| Narrow intense beam of light | 28 |
| Alien from the Red Planet | 25 |
| Gun's device to prevent accidental use | 38 |
| Measure of length | 17 |
| Reprobates | 10 |
| W African republic | 18 |
| Santa's helpers | 15 |
| Freight vessel | 14 |
| Bird noise | 10 |
| London cricket ground | 21 |
| Indirect allusion | 17 |
| River that runs through Munich | 30 |
| ...... Zappa, rock musician | 27 |
| The Darling Buds of May author | 30 |
| Largest of the Mediterranean's Pelagie Islands | 46 |
| Birmingham football club | 24 |
| Elizabethan explorer | 20 |
| Piece of cloth put over the back of a chair | 43 |
| Singer from the Smiths | 22 |
| Michelle ......, Memoirs of a Geisha actress | 44 |
| Real surname of author Lewis Carroll | 36 |
| American composer of Night and Day | 34 |
| Capital of Italy's Liguria region and the name of a rich fruit cake | 67 |
| Finding ......, film starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet | 58 |
| Indian tea-growing state | 24 |
| Ornamental box, part of traditional Japanese dress | 50 |
| Capital of a north-east African country | 39 |
| Sport using a canopy to glide down to earth | 43 |
| Alesha Dixon's old group | 24 |