Category: The Independents Jumbo General Crossword Answers
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- 1.Wading bird of the family Threskiornithidae considered sacred in ancient Egypt
- 2.Joe ___, former England footballer who managed Oldham Athletic, Everton, Manchester City and Ipswich Town
- 3.1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, based on Thornton Wilders 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers
- 4.Creature who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth until killed by Theseus
- 5.Omnivorous mammal of the genera Nasua and Nasuella, of Central and South America
- 6.See 15
- 7.Japanese city that hosted the first Winter Olympics held in Asia
- 8.A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, with a retractable hood over the rear half
- 9.African country whose capital is Cairo
- 10.Mexican tortilla containing cheese and other ingredients, folded in half to form a half-moon shape
- 11.See 8
- 12.Town in Umbria that was the birthplace of St Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order there in 1208
- 13.Ancient port in Israel founded by Herod the Great that was the capital of Roman Palestine
- 14.Town in Oxfordshire that hosts the largest one-day agricultural show in Britain
- 15.A small ornamented case for holding needles and other small articles
- 16.A clear, colourless fruit brandy produced by fermentation and double distillation
- 17.Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth
- 18.Technical name for the collarbone
- 19.To ___, poem by John Keats written in September 1819
- 20.Welsh actor best known for playing the title role in the TV series Hornblower
- 21.The plant Verbascum thapsus, that has woolly leaves and tall erect spikes of yellow flowers
- 22.The former name of Thailand
- 23.Religious cult associated with Haiti
- 24.The opening through which air enters a jet engine
- 25.County of NW Republic of Ireland, on the Atlantic
- 26.French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973
- 27.The youngest member of Englands 1966 World Cup winning team
- 28.The 16th president of the United States of America
- 29.1988 film starring Tom Cruise as a business student who takes up bartending
- 30.French drink made from barley or almonds, and orange flower water
- 31.Largest island of French Polynesia
- 32.The great circle on the celestial sphere representing the apparent annual path of the sun relative to the stars
- 33.Stefan ___, Swedish tennis player who won the mens singles at Wimbledon in 1988 and 1990
- 34.Oscar-winning 2001 film based on the life of John Forbes Nash
- 35.1957 film that gave Elvis Presley his first starring role, as singing delivery man Deke Rivers
- 36.Michael Jacksons first solo album on Epic Records, produced by Quincy Jones
- 37.1965 Top 10 hit for The Kinks whose B-side was I Need You
- 38.Christian saint from Lincolnshire, 673"714, particularly venerated in the Fens
- 39.Any of a class of compounds produced by reaction between acids and alcohols with the elimination of water
- 40.Ivy League university founded in 1701
- 41.The ___, monthly magazine launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams
- 42.A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South Asia
- 43.A recurring movement in Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
- 44.Italian adventurer famous for his autobiography, Histoire de ma vie
- 45.J Arthur ___, British industrialist whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s
- 46.1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin Britten
- 47.A fairy servant to Titania in A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
- 48.1884 opera by Jules Massenet based on a 1731 novel by the Abbé Prévost
- 49.Roman general and governor of Britain who advanced Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth
- 50.Town in North Holland on the IJsselmeer noted for its cheese
- 51.Any elementary particle capable of taking part in a strong nuclear interaction
- 52.Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Syringa
- 53.Greek-born economist convicted of perverting the course of justice with her former husband, MP Chris Huhne, in 2013
- 54.In classical mythology, a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
- 55.A wart, especially one growing on the hand or foot
- 56.Actor best known for playing Neil in the TV series The Young Ones
- 57.Brian ___, controversial English art critic, who was the illegitimate son of the composer Peter Warlock
- 58.J P ___, Irish American novelist and playwright whose novels include The Ginger Man and A Fairy Tale of New York
- 59.Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in war
- 60.French city with a ferry link to Portsmouth
- 61.The capital of Slovakia
- 62.Starchy cereal obtained from the powdered pith of a palm
- 63.City in California that was the capital of Spains Pacific empire from 1774 to 1825
- 64.Nickname of the first US presidential aircraft