Jumbo General February 03, 2024 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 762 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 03, 2024

Across Clues

• Spanish tennis player who has won 22 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, including a record 14 French Open titles
• Astronomical observatory in Cheshire whose radio telescope has a steerable parabolic dish
• A member of a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534
• Japanese camera manufacturer founded in Nagano in 1949
• British group whose biggest hit was Vienna
• Scorer of one of England’s goals in the 1966 World Cup Final
• 1861 novel by Ellen Wood whose central character is Lady Isabel Carlyle
• 1940 George Cukor film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey
• The American equivalent of a stag night
• Town in the West Bank near Jerusalem that was the birthplace of Jesus
• Scottish band whose tenth album, As the Love Continues, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart in 2021
• A chemical substance secreted by an animal which influences the behaviour of others of its species
• Title applied to Indian nobleman and religious teacher Gautama Siddhartha
• All Saints’ first UK number one hit single
• 1991 Terry Gilliam film starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges
• Play by William Shakespeare based on a tale from Boccaccio’s Decameron
• TV presenting duo whose surnames are McPartlin and Donnelly
• British javelin thrower who set a world record of 89.58m in July 1990
• A golden horse with a cream or white mane and tail
• The act or process of officially proving the authenticity and validity of a will
• Channel 4 sitcom created, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson
• “The face that launched a thousand ships”
• 1939 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho Marx plays Attorney J Cheever Loophole

Down Clues

• The national airline of Belgium from 1923 to 2001
• The capital of Azerbaijan
• A protein that is eliminated from the diet in cases of coeliac disease
• Small South American rodent of which the guinea pig is a type
• Fictional collie dog created by Eric Knight in a short story that spawned several films
• American actor whose films include Alexander’s Ragtime Band and Cocoon
• Official language of Pakistan
• A minute particle occurring in the blood of vertebrates and involved in clotting
• Game invented by British Army officers stationed in India
• Essex town which contains the sub-district of Bocking
• Rudolf ___, German engineer who invented a type of internal-combustion engine in 1892
• 2004 Girls Aloud single that reached number two in the charts
• Leonhard ___, 1707-1783, pre-eminent Swiss mathematician
• Of a triangle, having all sides of unequal length
• A cloth for drying washed crockery, cutlery and glasses
• Pupil, mistress and wife of Abelard
• A jewelled crown or headband worn as a symbol of sovereignty
• The simplest aliphatic alcohol
• Egyptian deity whose feminine counterpart was Seshat
• Book of the New Testament between Philemon and James
• A sugar-coated sweet containing a nut or seed
• Song that gave Nat ‘King’ Cole and Alvin Stardust top ten hits in 1953 and 1981 respectively
• F W ___, South African president who legalised the ANC and released Nelson Mandela from prison
• Lioness who scored her first World Cup goal against Australia in the 2023 semi-final
• John Millington ___, Irish playwright best known for The Playboy of the Western World
• English seaside resort famous for its tower and illuminations
• Unfinished 1817 novel by Jane Austen, originally called The Brothers
• Asian plant with aromatic leaves, used as a condiment and in perfumery and folk medicine
• In Greek mythology, a statue of a maiden brought to life by Aphrodite in response to the prayers of the sculptor Pygmalion
• Card game for two played with 32 cards and king high
• Region of France, between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine, famous for its wines
• Ancient Greek primordial deity personifying darkness
• Horse that won the 1999 Derby
• In Greek mythology, a nymph spurned by Narcissus who pined away until only her voice remained
• Mediterranean port city on the northern coastal plain of Israel