Jumbo General June 29, 2024 Answers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 783 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 29, 2024

Across Clues

• Bristol-born writer, comedian and actor whose TV series include The Outlaws, which he co-created with Elgin James
• 1973 hit single for David Bowie, a cover of a song first recorded by the McCoys
• 1991 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
• Painting by Lord Frederic Leighton in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a woman leaning against a Doric column
• Borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, famous for its beach
• Left arm spin bowler who played 410 first class matches for Essex
• The large black passerine bird Corvus frugilegus
• The capital of Lebanon
• 1996 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad
• James ___, prime minister of the United Kingdom 1976-1979
• Winner of the 2002 Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his show Something
• The economic and former official capital of Côte d’Ivoire
• Musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below the continuing first statement
• The most populous city in Canada
• November 2 in the RC Church when prayers are said for the dead in purgatory
• John ___, Suffolk-born Romantic painter whose works include Dedham Vale and The Hay Wain
• 1999 Woody Allen film in which Sean Penn plays a jazz guitarist called Emmet Ray
• French word for ‘team’
• Austrian city after which Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is nicknamed
• 1975 film starring Warren Beatty as a successful Beverly Hills hairdresser
• 2006 single by X Factor winner Shayne Ward that reached number two in the UK
• The longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1997 to 2008
• English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor and musician sometimes referred to as “the Fifth Beatle”
• 2000 Guy Ritchie crime film featuring Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro and Vinnie Jones
• 1922 autobiographical novel by e e cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I

Down Clues

• Oceanid in Greek mythology who was the mother of Acragas by Zeus
• Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
• Long-tailed gallinaceous bird of the family Phasianidae
• Swedish boxer who defeated Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship in 1959
• American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a number one hit with Runaway in 1961
• See 21
• Coastal town known as ‘the Gem of the Norfolk Coast’
• 1976 Queen single that reached number two in the UK
• 2007 film starring Sam Riley as Joy Division front man Ian Curtis
• Genus of flowering plants which includes the batflowers and arrowroot
• Group who had a hit single in 1975 with Why Did You Do It?
• The cruellest month, according to T S Eliot’s poem The Waste Land
• American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
• Group who had a 1972 number one single with Mouldy Old Dough
• The supreme god in Germanic mythology
• English novelist who wrote early works as Boz
• Former county, duchy and province of France corresponding largely to the present-day département of Maine-et-Loire
• Edgar ___, French artist whose paintings include L’Absinthe and La Classe de Danse
• Characteristic scenery of a limestone region, including underground streams, gorges, etc
• The Big ___, street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in 1991
• An implement used for threshing grain
• Daytime Granada Television series that ran from 1972 to 1984
• Carla ___, Turin-born singer-songwriter, model and actress who married French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008
• Singer and songwriter of The Adverts, best known for their 1977 single Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
• Another name for a googly in cricket
• English dessert that is a crude mixture of strawberries, pieces of meringue and cream
• Amounts paid or payable, usually in regular instalments, for an insurance policy
• The point on the celestial sphere vertically above an observer
• A Buddhist, especially a monk who has achieved enlightenment and at death passes to nirvana
• An early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two people played with a reduced deck
• Chesspiece also called a castle