Prize jumbo general knowledge crossword

#356

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9 Species of macaque found on Gibraltar (7,3) 11 Brand name for very hard rubber first obtained by Charles Goodyear (7) 13 Second largest city of

Poland (4) 15 Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (4-4,6) 16 Wife of Edward II (8) 17 Genus of trees and shrubs in the family Aceraceae (5) 18 2003 film starring Dougray Scott and Tim Roth about the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell (2,4,1,4) 21 Stewart ___, winner of the 2009 Open Championship (4) 22 Small marine fish of the

herring family (5) 23/14 French/Swiss actor who starred with Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film Girl on a

Motorcycle (5,5) 24 Sir John ___, British scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atom with Ernest Walton (9) 28/55 British actress, star of the BBC drama Last

Tango in Halifax (4,4) 29 See 38 Down 30 Son of Polonius in “3

Down” (7) 31 Name for the conspicuously-marked tail of a deer (4) 34 Industrial music, art rock, darkwave Los Angeles band formed in 1988 and disbanded six years later (6,2,5) 35 Mythological Greek hero, son of King Telamon, in Homer’s Iliad (4) 36 Relating to the membrane that enfolds the lungs (7) 37 Carbonated soft drink created and developed in 1893 and introduced as Brad’s Drink (5-4) 38 Capital and largest city of

Azerbaijan (4) 40 See 41 41/40 Winner of the 2003 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Cold Mountain (5,9) 42 Philip ___, American composer who published the memoir Words Without Music in 2015 (5) 43 See 44 Down 45 British observatory with a number of radio telescopes, part of the University of Manchester Department of Astrophysics (7,4) 49 Loose fibre obtained by untwisting old rope, used especially in caulking wooden ships (5) 50 Forenames of British DJ Hobbs, current host of the BBC 6 Music Weekend Breakfast shows (4,4) 52 British singer, winner of the fifth series of The X

Factor in 2008 (9,5) 55 See 28 56 Card game of the rummy family, devised by Segundo Santos and Alberto Serrato in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939 (7) 57 North American leguminous vines ( Apios

americana) with pinnate leaves and clusters of brownish-purple fragrant flowers (6,4)

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1 British actor, winner of the 1955 Golden Globe for Best Actor for A Star

Is Born (5,5) 2 Type of mediaeval weapon similar to a crossbow (8) 3 Play whose lead has the most lines of any character in a single Shakespeare play (6) 4 See 8 5 40-day period of fasting and penitence observed by many Christians in preparation for Easter (4) 6 See 42 7 State in Malaysia located on the northwest coast near the Strait of Malacca (6) 8/4 Gelatinous substance obtained from a member of the lily family, used especially in cosmetics as an emollient (4,4) 10 Napoleon ___, French military and political leader, 1769-1821 (9) 12 Last letter of the Greek

alphabet (5) 14 See 23 Across 19 Capital and most

33 Sir Nigel ___, designer

of the Mallard and Flying Scotsman locomotives (7) 38/29A British low-level subsonic strike aircraft that served with the Royal Navy and later the Royal Air Force, retiring from service in 1994 (9,9) 39 Stage and screen musical

based on The Taming of

the Shrew (4,2,4) 42/6 American actor, formerly married to English model and actress Agyness Deyn (8,6) 44/43 American guitarist whose hits include Rebel

Rouser and (Dance With The) Guitar Man (5,4) 45 Bert ___, Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle (6) 46 Name given to an

older woman acting as governess and companion in charge of girls, especially in a Spanish family (6) 47 Lee ___, now retired comedian who starred in the films Mouse Hunt, The Fifth Element and There’s Something About

Mary (5) 48 Surname of the actress who played Phoebe Buffay in the comedy series Friends (6) 51 Name of a Jedi Master who trains Luke Skywalker in the Star

Wars film series (4) 53 Name given to two convertible cars and one fixed head coupé produced by Lotus (4) 54 Oscar-winning film directed by and starring Ben Affleck (4)