Jumbo General Knowledge Crossword

Solutions, page 56

ACROSS 10 Dish consisting of raw minced beef mixed with raw egg (5,7)

13/40/58 2023 Netflix film starring Adam Sandler and his wife and daughters (3,3,2,3,7,2,2,3,7)

15 The youngest British driver to start or finish a Formula 1 race (6,7)

16 Shorts with H-shaped braces, traditionally worn by men in Alpine regions (10)

17 Apparatus used in men’s Olympic gymnastics (8,4)

19 The letter Y in the NATO phonetic alphabet (6)

20 A variety of beet with large succulent leaves and thick stalks (5)

22 Market town on the River Wharfe in West Yorkshire (5)

23/24 American singer whose top ten hits include Walk On By in 1964 and Heartbreaker in 1982 (6,7)

29 French tennis player, one of the “Four Musketeers,” who fought in the Battle for Castle Itter in World War II (4,7)

30 An academic cap with a stiff, flat square top and a tassel (11)

33 Character played by Walter Brennan in the 1959 Howard Hawks Western Rio Bravo (6)

34 The chief port of Spain (9)

36 A fine, soft, plain-weave cotton fabric, originally from the Indian subcontinent, used especially for babywear (8)

38 A small dipterous insect of the family Trypetidae (5,3)

40 See 13

41 See 56

43 Best Supporting Actress Oscarwinner for My Cousin Vinny (6,5)

45 Delicate thin-walled blood vessels that form an interconnecting network between the arterioles and the venules (11)

49 Italian ice cream containing chopped candied fruits (7)

50 Fine white clay that takes its name from a Chinese mountain (6)

51 A courtier in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet (5)

56/41 1890 play by Henrik Ibsen whose central character’s surname is Tesman (5,6)

57 The large feline mammal Panthera onca (6)

58 See 13

60 Women’s 400m champion at the 2003 World Athletics Championships who served as a Mexican Senator between 2012 and 2018 (3,7)

61 Comedy duo whose real surnames were Derbyshire and Harper (6,3,4)

63 Former minister who was Liberal Democrat MP for

Lewes from 1997 to 2015 (6,5) 64 2002 debut album by The Libertines (2,3,7)

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1 Indonesian island whose capital is Denpasar (4)

2 A small furry animal in the Star Trek universe that reacts to the presence of Klingons (7) 3 A urodele amphibian that only returns to water to breed (10) 4 Weir of ___, unfinished

1896 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (9)

5 The capital of North Korea (9) 6 Peninsula divided between Denmark and Germany (7) 7 Surname of the American acting dynasty comprising Lloyd and sons Beau and Jeff (7)

8 Vauxhall model introduced in 1979 as a right-hand drive version of the Opel Kadett (5) 9 1986 Stephen Sondheim musical with a book by

James Lapine (4,3,5)

11/27 Name of several Dukes of Norfolk, including the third, who was an uncle of two wives of King Henry VIII (6,6)

12 Painting by Jan Vermeer that has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1931 (3,8,2,5)

14 Trade magazine first published in 1862 (3,6)

18 A word that means the opposite of another word (7)

21 American writer best known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books (5,7,6) 25/42 French composer whose works include the Symphonie fantastique (6,7)

26 Welsh comedian and actor who accompanied Steve Coogan in several series of The Trip (3,6) 27 See 11

28 See 59

31 The local representative of the king in a shire until the early 11th century (5)

32 The chief river of Ghana (5) 35 First name shared by the film director Fassbinder and the poet Rilke (6)

37 Subject-based qualification introduced in the UK in place of the School Certificate in

1951 (1-5) 39 2008 Katy Perry single that topped the US chart for seven consecutive weeks (1,6,1,4)

42 See 25

44 King of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy (9) 46 Novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Acton Bell (4,6)

47 The tenth sign of the zodiac (9) 48 Silvery-white metallic element whose principal ore is bauxite (9)

52 1987 film based on the life of Ritchie Valens (2,5)

53 1901 opera by Antonín Dvorák about a water sprite from

Slavic mythology (7)

54 Cornish village on the Roseland Peninsula with a ferry service to Falmouth (2,5) 55 Blondie number one single that is the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo (4,2)

59/28 Manager of the Hungarian football team Ferencváros who captained the Serbian national team from 2007 to 2011 (5,9)

62 One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint, along with loop and whorl (4)

CORRECTION

In the crossword for 9-10 March, we mispelled the name of the Indian cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal. We apologise for the error