Jumbo General May 25, 2024 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 778 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 25, 2024

Across Clues

• The North Pacific animal Enhydra lutris, formerly hunted for its thick fur
• Any one of 92 members of the House of Lords whose entitlement is inherited
• Mare that won the 1948 Grand National
• Port in Greece between the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras that was the scene of a 1571 naval battle
• A priest’s cassock in the Roman Catholic Church
• 1949 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Michael Wilding, Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten
• 1800 play by Friedrich Schiller used as the basic for an opera by Gaetano Donizetti
• British comedian whose real name was Charlie Olden
• The Australian cockatoo Kakatoe roseicapilla
• Tunisian-born Italian actress whose films include The Leopard and The Pink Panther
• Set of two facing cymbals operated by a foot pedal
• Country whose capital is Tallinn
• La Liga football club based in Pamplona
• Pierre-Paul ___, French Romantic painter and draughtsman whose 1805 Portrait of Joséphine de Beauharnais hangs in the Louvre
• Small shrub in the family Labiatae with a strong mintlike odour
• Colombian racing driver whose first Formula One win was the 2001 Italian Grand Prix
• The holiest city of Islam
• The brightest star in the sky
• Italian romantic novelist and poet best known for his historical novel I Promessi sposi
• Italian poet who wrote the Divina Commedia
• See 43
• Italian city that is home to the oldest university in the Western world
• Snack food that comes in Linoleic, high oleic and Nusun varieties
• General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982
• French city that is capital of the Eure-et-Loir department

Down Clues

• In the New Testament, a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers
• The first of Slade’s six UK number one singles
• British author whose novels include The Mask of Dimitrios and The Light of Day
• An athlete such as Randy Barnes or Geoff Capes
• Jean-Robert ___, French mathematician who devised a diagram that displays complex numbers
• See 46
• 1990 film starring Bette Midler based on a 1920 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty
• One name for the pest Myzus persicae
• Jean ___, French film director whose works include La grande illusion
• Series of small cars produced from 1957 to 1991 by former East German car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau
• ___ of Hentzau, sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope published in 1898
• The governor or prefect of a modern Greek province
• 1984 American war film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen
• Stefanos ___, Greek tennis player who won the 2019 ATP Finals on his debut in the year-end tournament
• In the Old Testament, the second son of Adam and Eve
• See 27
• The northernmost town on the British mainland
• English actress who appeared in Woody Allen’s film Husbands And Wives and the sitcom Three Up, Two Down
• Painting by Vincent van Gogh that became the most expensive painting ever sold in 1987
• Compound used in a blowpipe for cutting or welding metals at high temperatures
• The world’s second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese
• English production duo comprising Nigel Champion and Mark Franklin whose biggest UK hit was Anthem in 1991
• German vocal group whose hits include Rivers of Babylon and Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord
• The capital of the Slovak Republic
• Italian painter of the Venetian school whose original name was Jacopo Robusti
• Spanish drink of red wine, sugar, fruit juice and iced soda
• Animal known as a caribou in North America
• 1985 film starring Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges
• See 3
• City in Ecuador that is capital of the Imbabura Province
• A climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years
• Roni ___, stage name of record producer and DJ Ryan Owen Granville Williams
• Texas city associated with a 1993 siege involving the the Branch Davidians