Category: The Independents Jumbo General Crossword Answers
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- 1.District of the London Borough of Islington that was home to the largest womens prison in Europe until 2016
- 2.In the DC Comics series, the alter ego of Aubrey Sparks and an antagonist of Superman
- 3.A white grape grown in the Burgundy region of France and elsewhere, used for making wine
- 4.1885 novel by Sir Henry Rider Haggard
- 5.Another name for the white poplar
- 6.In the European Union, a former system of managing a group of currencies by allowing the exchange rate of each to fluctuate within narrow limits
- 7.The poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, used to make the drink that killed Socrates
- 8.1923 novella by D H Lawrence featuring the characters Nellie March and Jill Banford
- 9.A small butterfly of the genus Callophrys
- 10.1941 Hollywood musical starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter
- 11.Ancient Greek war-galley with three banks of rowers
- 12.Artificial sports surface invented in 1965 and originally sold under the name ChemGrass
- 13.English actress best known for the 1987 David Leland film Wish You Were Here
- 14.The capital of Hungary
- 15.Former province of France whose chief town is Rouen
- 16.A red wine grape and a popular Italian wine made principally from it
- 17.A former name for Jakarta
- 18.The official standard of fineness of British coins
- 19.Nobel prize-winning Russian physiologist best known for his classical conditioning experiments with dogs
- 20.1972 British film starring Simon Ward in the title role
- 21.Colourless volatile highly-flammable liquid made by the reaction of sulphuric acid with ethanol
- 22.British celebrity magazine published in the United Kingdom since 1988, sister magazine to the Spanish weekly ¡Hola!
- 23.British writer best known for his Bobby Brewster childrens books
- 24.A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South Asia
- 25.1937 musical film starring Alice Faye that was remade in 1943 as Cowboy in Manhattan
- 26.A large medieval crossbow, usually cocked by mechanical means
- 27.The harmless crystalline deposits that separate from wines during fermentation and aging
- 28.British mass circulation magazine that incorporated Titbits in 1984 before itself closing in 1989
- 29.The main vessel in the arterial network
- 30.The supreme god of the ancient Greeks
- 31.Arthur ___, German pessimist philosopher whose chief work is The World as Will and Idea
- 32.An ancient city on the north coast of Africa northwest of Carthage
- 33.Republic in SE Asia first united as the kingdom of Lan Xang ( million elephants ) in 1353
- 34.Thomas ___, English economist who propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population
- 35.The period of human history that began in the Middle East about 1100 BC
- 36.Suze ___, American artist and former girlfriend of Bob Dylan seen walking with him on the cover of his album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
- 37.Writer and director of the 1959 film Plan 9 from Outer Space
- 38.Noble warriors of Japan who followed a code of rules called bushido
- 39.Wading bird similar to a heron but usually with white plumage
- 40.A shrub or herbaceous plant native to the Mediterranean region depicted on the capital of a Corinthian column
- 41.A Muslim judge, ruler or administrator
- 42.The third sign of the zodiac
- 43.1991 Alan Parker film adaptation of a novel by Roddy Doyle
- 44.The spherical area around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape
- 45.City that was the capital of Japan from 794 to 1868
- 46.Comic play written by Noël Coward, set in a house at Cookham, Berkshire
- 47.American singer associated with the songs Cant Take My Eyes Off You and Music to Watch Girls By
- 48.English city on the River Soar
- 49.The unlawful killing of one human being by another without malice aforethought
- 50.Song by Mark Barkan that gave Manfred Mann a UK number one in May 1966
- 51.Billy Joels first US Top 10 and UK Top 20 single
- 52.A dealer in fabrics and sewing materials, a trade to which H G Wells was apprenticed, inspiring Kipps
- 53.The capital of Canada
- 54.Ancient region on the west coast of Asia Minor that was a powerful kingdom in the century and a half before the Persian conquest in 546 BC
- 55.Jaroslav ___, Czech novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Good Soldier Schweik
- 56.E T A ___, German Romantic author whose stories form the basis of an Offenbach opera and ballets by Tchaikovsky and Delibes
- 57.The first Sunday in Lent
- 58.County whose administrative centre is Norwich
- 59.Marcel ___, French-born US painter and sculptor whose best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2