Jumbo General March 23, 2024 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 769 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 23, 2024

Across Clues

• Japanese port almost completely destroyed by the second atomic bomb dropped by the US in 1945
• Reddish dye obtained from the powdered leaves of the plant Lawsonia inermis
• A former French gold coin worth 20 francs
• British actor, famous for playing Grant Mitchell in EastEnders
• Michael ___, British TV and film director whose films include Coal Miner’s Daughter
• American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate in Chicago
• 1985 novel by Bret Easton Ellis named after a song by Elvis Costello
• Animals that have all four limbs specialised for walking
• Coniferous tree with needle-like evergreen leaves and erect barrel-shaped cones
• Coral island of Japan, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands
• Canadian city that is capital of Alberta
• Argentine tennis player who won the women’s singles title at the US Open in 1990
• An elementary school in France
• Eastern dish of spiced rice
• Kate Bush single that reached number five in the UK chart in 1980
• The capital of Cape Verde
• Small edible marine decapod crustacean with a long tail and two pairs of pincers
• Sport played by the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, for example
• Mineral form of mercuric sulphide that is the main commercial source of mercury
• See 40
• A medium-sized smooth-haired breed of dog with a short nose and a docked tail
• 1973 Western film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
• 2001 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman whose central character is Shadow
• Private research university in California founded in 1891
• The first single from DJ Khaled’s fourth studio album Victory, featuring Usher, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and Drake
• 1984 Joe Dante film starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates
• A drink made with advocaat and lemonade
• Leo ___, singer-songwriter whose first hit single was The Show Must Go On in 1973
• Well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898 by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo di Capua

Down Clues

• The second largest city in Pakistan
• US state whose capital is Topeka
• The title character of Dick King-Smith’s 1983 book The Sheep-Pig
• Caribbean island divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic
• Group who had a US Top 10 hit with the single Bend Me, Shape Me in 1968
• The largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the United States
• Novel by Leo Tolstoy published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877
• Organisation for which Captain Scarlet is an agent in the Gerry Anderson puppet series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
• In cricket, a fielder who stands a little way behind and to the offside of the wicketkeeper
• Novel by R D Blackmore subtitled A Romance of Exmoor
• June 21 in Canada, celebrating the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada
• A stock comic character originating in the commedia dell’arte, usually represented in diamond-patterned multicoloured tights and a black mask
• 1929 German silent film directed by G W Pabst and starring Louise Brooks
• In Ulster, a dish of mashed potatoes and spring onions or leeks
• American actress whose films include Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne
• The first film the Marx Brothers made for MGM after their departure from Paramount
• Genus of plants that includes the spurges and poinsettia
• American oboist who wrote the 2005 memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music
• Larry ___, harmonica-player who won an Oscar nomination for his work on the soundtrack of the 1953 film Genevieve
• A member of a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan listed in Genesis as being descended from Ham
• London station opened in 1863 as the terminus of the original Metropolitan Railway
• Scottish castle purchased by Queen Victoria’s consort Prince Albert in 1852
• Form of Islam practised by guitarist Richard Thompson
• The kitchen of a ship, boat or aircraft
• Former name of the Polish city of Gdansk
• A small semiaquatic amphibian such as Triturus vulgaris
• The legal alias of the Archbishops of York