Category: The Independents Jumbo General Crossword Answers
16-February-2019 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Buzz Answers
- 1.Market town in Gloucester on the River Churn
- 2.Duncan ___, Conservative MP who served as Defence Secretary in Harold Macmillans government and whose first wife was Diana Churchill
- 3.See 24
- 4.Mike ___, assistant manager of Manchester United from 2008 to 2013 and from December 2018
- 5.Warwickshire hamlet with an Augustinian priory and a medieval moated castle
- 6.Elisha Graves ___, inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails
- 7.___ Hird, English actress and TV presenter made a Dame in 1993
- 8.Colourless odourless poisonous flammable gas with the formula CO
- 9.The most populous city in the Canary Islands
- 10.French city whose football team won the 2010/11 Ligue 1 title
- 11.The end of the days play in cricket
- 12.Breed of domestic fowl that originated in America and lays brown eggs
- 13.Long-running BBC radio series set mainly in Ambridge
- 14.The capital and chief port of Paraguay
- 15.Comedy partner of Gareth Hale
- 16.In the Old Testament, Moses successor who led the Israelites in the conquest of Canaan
- 17.Arachnid of warm dry regions with a long tail terminating in a venomous sting
- 18.Mario ___, one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR
- 19.English poet best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- 20.In Muslim belief, any of the nymphs of Paradise
- 21.The fruit of the oak tree
- 22.Brass musical instrument that is the tenor of the tuba family and used mainly in brass bands
- 23.American director whose films include Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange
- 24.Brother of Jacob in the Old Testament who exchanged his birthright for some lentil stew
- 25.1980 Rupert Holmes song that was a Number 1 hit in America, later known as The Piña Colada Song
- 26.1983 autobiographical book by Lucy Irvine about her year on Tuin Island
- 27.A bird of Central and South America with small wings, a heavy body and an inconspicuous plumage
- 28.A name, originally Shetland, for the great skua
- 29.Board game that takes its name from the Greek for jump
- 30.Darren ___, former Yorkshire and England cricketer who won the TV show Strictly Come Dancing
- 31.Francis ___, a bellows-mender in Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream
- 32.See 55
- 33.William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudes
- 34.The North American tree Acer rubrum
- 35.A person claiming to have the power to foretell future events
- 36.Dinosaur-like character who made his debut in the video game Super Mario World in 1990
- 37.A partly arboreal tropical African venomous snake of the genus Dendroaspis
- 38.Language also known as Old English
- 39.Shakespeare tragedy based on the life of a legendary Roman leader
- 40.Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed himself when Achilles armour was given to Odysseus
- 41.T S Eliots middle name
- 42.A narrow tube inserted into a bodily cavity, for draining off fluid, introducing medication, etc
- 43.1981 single by Godley & Creme that reached number 7 in the UK chart
- 44.Another name for a plant of genus Rhexia
- 45.Spanish city on the River Tagus famous for steel and swords since the first century
- 46.A former Indian copper coin, worth one sixteenth of a rupee
- 47.The capital of Chile
- 48.___ Park, home ground of Yeovil Town FC
- 49.A large neck ring usually made from strands of metal twisted together
- 50.Market town in Lincolnshire whose 13th-century St Marys Church boasts one of the best-preserved lead spires in England
- 51.Official currency of Germany until the adoption of the euro in 2002
- 52.Opportunity Knocks winners who topped the charts in 1973 with Welcome Home
- 53.English actor who narrated the 1975 BBC TV series Paddington
- 54.A unit of capacity used for measuring fresh herring
- 55.The common plant Bellis perennis
- 56.Town in Lincolnshire for whose football team cricketer Ian Botham played
- 57.American TV series set in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital
- 58.Song written by Willie Nelson in 1961 and covered by Patsy Cline
- 59.The ___ Islands are a group of islands in the Pacific, off the N coast of Irian Jaya, the largest of which is Biak
- 60.In Greek mythology, the ship on which Jason sailed from Iolcos to retrieve the Golden Fleece
- 61.One of a pair of short-handled oars, both of which are pulled by one oarsman
- 62.An ancient Egyptian fertility goddess, depicted as a woman with a cows horns