Jumbo General September 02, 2023 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 740 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 02, 2023

Across Clues

• Actress who played Lucie, opposite Dirk Bogarde, in the 1958 film A Tale of Two Cities
• Elvis Presley single that topped the US Billboard chart for eight weeks in 1957
• Tropical Asian tree whose bark yields a spice
• Isamu ___, American artist whose work includes an iconic table introduced by Herman Miller in 1947
• See 17
• Province of Canada first settled by the French as Acadia
• Song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman that held three positions in the British Top 20 in May 1959
• Pop duo comprising David Van Day and Thereza Bazar
• A common auk, Alca torda, of the North Atlantic
• A man’s soft felt hat named after the heroine of a novel by George du Maurier
• The 16th president of the United States of America
• William ___, 14th-century English poet to whom the poem The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman is attributed
• US state whose capital is Salem
• Ferry company owned by SNCF that operated ferry services between Calais and Dover until liquidated in 2012
• In Chinese cookery, a dumpling filled with spiced minced pork, usually served in soup
• See 50
• Actress who played Margaret Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave
• Bette ___, American singer, actress and comedian known as “The Divine Miss M”
• Roman poet and philosopher whose only known work is De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things
• The final song of Pink Floyd’s 1971 album Meddle, which gives its name to their 2001 compilation album
• Actress who played Eileen Reynolds in Heartbeat
• 1931 novel in a series by E F Benson
• 2023 Greta Gerwig film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling
• 1984 album by David Bowie
• The umbelliferous coastal plant Crithmum maritimum
• African country whose capital is Nouakchott
• Brazil’s chief port, on Guanabara Bay

Down Clues

• English county whose administrative centre is Truro
• Small shrub with a strong mintlike odour
• English-born comedy partner of Oliver Hardy
• American jazz saxophonist known as “The Sound”
• The directorial film debut of Martha Fiennes, starring her brother Ralph in the title role, with music by brother Magnus
• Pietro ___, Italian composer whose operas include Cavalleria rusticana
• Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais
• Tree of the genus Castanea with edible nuts
• Sovereign state in Oceania whose capital, Honiara, is on Guadalcanal
• Light porous volcanic rock used as an abrasive
• The third largest river system in South America
• A dry brown brandy distilled in the French district of Gers
• 1950 John Ford western starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara
• Industrial city in France that was the medieval capital of Flanders
• American rock band whose hits include Livin’ on a Prayer
• African country whose capital is Bujumbura
• Actress who played Jessica Fletcher in the TV series Murder, She Wrote
• The spiral-horned southern African antelope Tragelaphus angasi
• A piece of music composed for a group of nine instruments
• Rock group formed by the remaining members of Joy Division after the suicide of Ian Curtis
• Member of the molluscan class Gastropoda that has a coiled shell in the adult stage
• English county whose administrative centre is Lewes
• Dante Gabriel ___, poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites
• Island in the Inner Hebrides, located north of Islay and south of Mull
• The thirteenth studio album by Marvin Gaye, released in 1976
• American actor whose films include Casablanca, The Big Sleep and The African Queen
• Nickname of the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Port in SW Iran, on an island in the Shatt-al-Arab
• The capital of Kazakhstan
• See 45
• The capital of Jordan