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24-November-2018 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Zone 301 Clues & Answers

  1. 1978 Richard Attenborough horror film with a screenplay by William Goldman, based on his own novel
  2. The spoken form of Modern Greek
  3. Village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire best known for its large coal-fired power station
  4. Knighted English actor born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in 1933
  5. 1975 Steven Spielberg film based on a 1974 novel by Peter Benchley
  6. R M ___, Scottish author noted for adventure stories such as The Coral Island
  7. Channel between Cape Dezhnev in Russia and Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska
  8. Either of two raised pulpits from which the gospels and epistles were read in early Christian churches
  9. The capital of Spain
  10. Bob Dylan song that is the final track on The Bands debut album Music from Big Pink
  11. The goddess of peace in Greek mythology
  12. Epic poem by Walter Scott that contains the lines Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practise to deceive!
  13. A small brightly-coloured beetle of the family Coccinellidae, such as Adalia bipunctata
  14. A small ensemble of street musicians in Mexico
  15. Setting for Shakespeares play Hamlet
  16. The skeleton of the human foot consisting of five long bones
  17. Heavily-built short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions
  18. A traditional Jewish school devoted chiefly to the study of rabbinic literature and the Talmud
  19. American author whose first book, God: A Biography, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1996
  20. Song from Oklahoma! performed by Connie Booth as Polly in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers
  21. See 43
  22. American actor and comedian who co-starred with Jackie Chan in the Rush Hour series of films
  23. Actor who played John Thaws sidekick in The Sweeney
  24. 1958 novel by Iris Murdoch set in Imber Court
  25. Song from the 1967 Walt Disney film The Jungle Book subtitled The Pythons Song
  26. English Baroque composer and organist whose only stage composition was the opera Venus and Adonis
  27. An insect of the orthopterous family Gryllidae
  28. English actor whose TV roles include Dr Geoffrey Brent in Police Surgeon and Dr David Keel in The Avengers
  29. African country whose capital is Malabo
  30. The 50th state of the United States
  31. Allan ___, former Leeds United and England striker nicknamed Sniffer
  32. Football manager nicknamed Big Eck who was appointed Scotland national team manager for a second time in February 2018
  33. See 37
  34. Large sea duck of the genus Somateria
  35. Heinrich ___, German composer and organist regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach
  36. Brand name for the drug Sildenafil citrate
  37. Ancient Greek city on Mount Parnassus that was the site of the most famous oracle of Apollo
  38. African country whose capital is Luanda
  39. In Greek mythology, a son of Daedalus who flew too near the sun when trying to escape from Crete
  40. American actress who married Cary Grant, who was 33 years her senior, in 1965
  41. 1971 British crime film starring 20 Across , 25 Across and 33 Across
  42. The second largest city in Colombia
  43. 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band
  44. Crete-born physician to Nero who left instructions for making theriac, a compound medicine and antidote, in a poem
  45. Common name for Flacourtia indica, a species of flowering plant with plumlike fruits
  46. Character in EastEnders played by Anita Dobson from 1985 to 1988
  47. Australian river that rises as the Avon northeast of Narrogin and flows to the Indian Ocean below Perth
  48. Country in the SW Pacific whose capital is Port Moresby
  49. Swedish actress and singer whose films include The Wicker Man and The Man with the Golden Gun
  50. French for goodbye
  51. US state whose capital is Bismarck
  52. The part of the eyeball consisting of the iris, ciliary body and choroid
  53. Justin ___, Canadian prime minister from 2015
  54. An oval earthenware cooking dish with a tightly fitting lid used for pâtés etc
  55. A nobleman ranking below an earl and above a baron
  56. An obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling a guitar
  57. Edmond ___, French playwright and poet best known for his verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac
  58. A streamlined mound of glacial drift