Jumbo General October 09, 2021 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 642 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 09, 2021

Across Clues

• A lightly spiced cured bacon from Italy whose name literally means “little belly”
• Ancient Semitic language spoken in parts of Syria and the Lebanon
• Small piece of rock or metal that has entered the earth’s atmosphere from space
• 2008 novel by Irish author Maeve Binchy
• Brit and Mercury-nominated band whose albums include Through the Windowpane
• See 46
• 1960s music TV programme whose best-known presenters were Keith Fordyce and Cathy McGowan
• Former Tottenham Hotspur defender who won the first of his 21 England caps in 2002
• Colour of the snooker ball worth four points
• Legendary creature alleged to inhabit the Himalayas, also called a yeti
• Italian language opera by Mozart set on Crete
• An oblique-angled parallelogram with four equal sides
• Tielman ___, Antwerp-based 16th-century Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and music publisher
• TV presenter who was never booked during his playing career as a footballer
• Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979
• Britney ___, singer whose debut single was …Baby One More Time
• The most populous city in Canada
• A felt or cloth brimless cap resembling a fez, usually red and often with a silk tassel
• American dramatist whose works include A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Radio presenter who found fame in the 1980s when his show on Radio Aire in Leeds was simulcast on national television
• Optical illusion that produces a visual sensation when the original stimulus has ceased
• Maths expressions containing one or more irrational roots of numbers
• Unit of weight that might be international avoirdupois or international troy
• Singer and songwriter who also wrote the books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works
• A cloth covering the back and arms of chairs, etc, to prevent soiling
• Thomas ___, English political philosopher whose works include Leviathan
• A compound found in some foods which has been linked to gout and kidney stones
• See 17

Down Clues

• 1995 science fiction film starring Kevin Costner, who also produced it
• A rough heavy mass of solidified lava containing many cavities
• Name for various species of crustacean such as Corystes cassivelaunus and Ovalipes australiensis
• Queen of the Goths in Shakespeare’s play Titus Andronicus
• See 38
• In J R R Tolkien’s Middle-earth books, the nine men who succumbed to Sauron’s power and attained near-immortality as wraiths
• 1993 Steven Spielberg film that won seven Oscars
• The smallest quantity of an element that can take part in a chemical reaction
• 14th-century Grade I listed building in Wensleydale
• District of Kent which includes the towns of Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs
• Flowering plant of the genus Verbascum
• Name for the New Zealand national rugby league team
• J. Wellington ___, hamburger-loving character from the Popeye cartoons
• Samuel ___, American inventor of a single-wire telegraph system and a code which bears his name
• Inert gas whose atomic number is 10
• European marine food fish, Trisopterus luscus, also called a pout
• Coarse-grained rock that represents the last stage in the metamorphism of rocks before melting
• Ballad from The Wizard of Oz that became Judy Garland’s signature song
• The largest desert in the world
• The plant Calotropis procera which is native to the Dead Sea and desert regions of Israel
• Gram negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms
• A Hawaiian word for hello or goodbye
• Leguminous West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, which is a source of indigo
• American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
• See 51
• Cricket captain who led Australia to fifteen of their record sixteen consecutive Test wins
• 1975 horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg
• Bulgarian dish made with fresh vegetables, eggs and Sirene cheese
• An acknowledgment that a scoring hit has been made in a fencing competition
• A group or series of nine
• A German World War II prisoner-of-war camp
• Broad track running along the south side of Hyde Park in London
• The end of a rugby match
• Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in parts of Uganda and Kenya