Jumbo General October 26, 2024 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 800 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 26, 2024

Across Clues

• Country in the SW Pacific whose capital is Port Moresby
• A traditional Jewish school devoted chiefly to the study of rabbinic literature and the Talmud
• Swedish actress whose films include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chocolat and The Artist’s Wife
• Epic poem by Walter Scott that contains the lines “Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive!”
• African country whose capital is Luanda
• 1871 opera by Verdi commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt
• Large sea duck of the genus Somateria
• Knighted English actor born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in 1933
• A person dedicated to a monastic or religious life
• 1978 Richard Attenborough horror film with a screenplay by William Goldman, based on his own novel
• English actor whose TV roles include Dr Geoffrey Brent in Police Surgeon and Dr David Keel in The Avengers
• Léon ___, French physicist who demonstrated the rotation of the earth on its axis by means of the pendulum named after him
• Song from the 1967 Walt Disney film The Jungle Book subtitled The Python’s Song
• The part of the eyeball consisting of the iris, ciliary body and choroid
• American actor and comedian who co-starred with Jackie Chan in the Rush Hour series of films
• Swedish actress and singer whose films include The Wicker Man and The Man with the Golden Gun
• Island in the Channel Islands ruled by a hereditary seigneur or dame
• Common name for Flacourtia indica, a species of flowering plant with plumlike fruits
• Setting for Shakespeare’s play Hamlet
• 1971 British crime film starring “20 Across”, “25 Across” and “33 Across”
• The goddess of peace in Greek mythology
• Ancient Greek city on Mount Parnassus that was the site of the most famous oracle of Apollo
• Channel between Cape Dezhnev in Russia and Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska
• Measure of the weight of precious stones, now standardised as 0.20 grams
• Village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire best known for its large coal-fired power station
• The 50th state of the United States
• Edmond ___, French playwright and poet best known for his verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac
• English Baroque composer and organist whose only stage composition was the opera Venus and Adonis
• Justin ___, Canadian prime minister from 2015
• Actor who played John Thaw’s sidekick in The Sweeney

Down Clues

• The North American name for swede
• See 43
• Australian river that rises as the Avon northeast of Narrogin and flows to the Indian Ocean below Perth
• Heavily-built short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions
• Crete-born physician to Nero who left instructions for making theriac, a compound medicine and antidote, in a poem
• A small ensemble of street musicians in Mexico
• American actress who married Cary Grant, who was 33 years her senior, in 1965
• Bob Dylan song that is the final track on The Band’s debut album Music from Big Pink
• Brand name for the drug Sildenafil citrate
• R M ___, Scottish author noted for adventure stories such as The Coral Island
• Central character in Henry Fielding’s fourth and final novel, published in 1751
• The spoken form of Modern Greek
• African country whose capital is Malabo
• An obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling a guitar
• A streamlined mound of glacial drift
• An insect of the orthopterous family Gryllidae
• An oval earthenware cooking dish with a tightly fitting lid used for pâtés etc
• American TV series starring Jeremy Allen White as chef Carmy Berzatt
• US state whose capital is Bismarck
• Song from Oklahoma! performed by Connie Booth as Polly in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers
• Character in EastEnders played by Anita Dobson from 1985 to 1988
• The skeleton of the human foot consisting of five long bones
• 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band
• Popular nickname for US First Lady Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
• In Greek mythology, a son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from Crete
• A small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera that lays its eggs in, water
• Polynesian island whose capital is Papeete
• 1975 Steven Spielberg film based on a 1974 novel by Peter Benchley