Jumbo General October 14, 2023 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 746 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 14, 2023

Across Clues

• English fashion designer who was the creative director of Chloé from 1997 to 2001
• The hard white substance that covers the crown of each tooth
• 1987 film for which Cher and Olympia Dukakis won acting Oscars
• Marcus Vipsanius ___, Roman statesman and general responsible for most of Octavian’s military victories
• 1957 novel by Patrick White based upon the life of the 19th-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt
• 1957 film by David Lean based on a novel by Pierre Boulle
• Country whose motto is Plus Ultra
• The standard monetary unit of Nicaragua
• Set of pseudoscientific ideas and practices invented by L Ron Hubbard and practised by followers of Scientology
• The bicameral parliament of Iceland
• The first Sunday in Lent
• New Zealand city whose Maori-language name is Tamaki Makaurau
• Friend of Job whose speech is recounted in chapters 32 to 37 of the Book of Job
• Actress who played Arwen Undómiel in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings films
• US actor whose films include On the Waterfront and The Godfather
• African country whose capital is Abuja
• Dutch footballer whose clubs included Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Sunderland
• The one of the three Fates who severs the thread of life in Greek mythology
• Town on the Isle of Wight famous for its annual regatta
• 1972 film starring George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin, freely adapted from L P Davies’s 1968 novel The Alien
• The colour of unbleached linen
• Mikhail ___, Russian anarchist and writer expelled from the First International after conflicts with Karl Marx
• Singer whose first album was Come Away With Me
• See 38
• 1999 film for which Angelina Jolie won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar

Down Clues

• A group of people united by kinship and descent
• Horse that won the 1970 Grand National
• Name by which Attila the Hun was known
• Yorkshire schoolmaster who runs Dotheboys Hall in Charles Dickens’s novel Nicholas Nickleby
• Song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the film Orchestra Wives, famously covered by blues singer Etta James in 1960
• American author and poet whose works include the humorous poem The Jolly Old Pedagogue
• A member of the order of aquatic mammals that includes the toothed whales and the baleen whales
• Norwegian port that was the scene of two naval battles in 1940
• 1983 number one single by David Bowie from an album of the same name
• In Egyptian mythology, a moon deity, scribe of the gods and protector of learning and the arts
• 1980 studio album by Bob Marley & The Wailers featuring the songs Could You Be Loved and Redemption Song
• Swedish actress and singer whose films include The Wicker Man and The Man with the Golden Gun
• The capital of the Czech Republic
• Edible seed of the South American tree Bertholletia excelsa
• Winner of three of golf’s major championships who was nicknamed ‘The Silver Scot’
• English pop singer who rose to fame as the lead singer of Kajagoogoo before having a solo hit with The NeverEnding Story in 1984
• Italian conductor who was musical director of La Scala, Milan, and of the NBC symphony Orchestra in New York
• 1987 album by Eurythmics featuring the songs You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart and I Need a Man
• A tropical herbaceous plant of the East Indies cultivated for its small oval seeds
• Colour of dyed woollen cloth associated with Robin Hood and his merry men
• Thoroughbred racehorse that in 1970 became the first for 35 years to win the English Triple Crown
• Greek writer of tragedies which include Antigone and Oedipus The King
• Brand of cigarette made in England by W D & H O Wills from 1888
• 1996 comedy film parodying James Bond movies starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan
• Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Derby in 1975
• Another name for the penalty box in ice hockey
• See 6
• The largest island of Greece
• ___ … I Did It Again, 2000 hit single by Britney Spears