Jumbo General Knowledge Crossword

ACROSS

10 The debut studio album by Travis, released in 1997 (4,7)

12 A South American cud-chewing mammal closely related to the llama (6)

13 The capital of Iran (6)

16 1964 Stanley Kubrick film subtitled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (2,11)

17 The primary seat of government of the autonomous Spanish community of Castile and León (10)

18 The right of a lord in feudal Europe to seize a serf’s best horse and/or clothing upon his death (6)

19 American brand of scale model cars introduced by Mattel in 1968 (3,6)

20 The small northern songbird Oenanthe oenanthe (8)

21 A piece of music for eight performers (5) 23/58 British tennis player who won the mixed-doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, partnering Henri Kontinen (7,6)

24 An ornamental centrepiece for a dining table (7)

30 American TV series starring Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick (3,4,4)

31 American film director whose films include The King and I and

State Fair (6,4) 34 American actor who played the title role in Batman Forever (3,6)

35 The largest market town in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border (8)

36 Stone consisting of a variety of chalcedony that is typically banded in appearance (5)

39 See 50

40 A graduated scale shaped like a figure eight showing the daily declination of the sun (8)

41 Literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol, that received covert funding from the CIA (9)

44 The original title of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel

Treasure Island (3,3,4)

45 1970s sitcom starring Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal (3,4,4)

47 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical with a book by James Goldman (7)

49 1972 John Huston film starring Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges and Susan Tyrrell (3,4)

50/39 Award whose recipients have included Ranulph Fiennes and Vivian Fuchs (5,5)

55 African country formerly called Abyssinia (8)

57 Herbaceous perennial plant of a genus that includes sagebrush and wormwood (9)

58 See 23

60 Ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime (10)

61 Swedish astronomer who invented a temperature scale (6,7)

62 A haploid germ cell that fuses with another germ cell during fertilisation (6)

63 Oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn premiered at the Birmingham Festival in 1846 (6)

64 1995 number one single by Take That (4,3,4)

DOWN

1 Figure in the legend of King Arthur depicted as being responsible for his downfall (7)

2 Charity single recorded by USA for Africa in 1985 (2,3,3,5)

3 First name of the older sister of Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’s 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire (7)

4 A substance that induces insensitivity to pain (11)

5 The world’s longest-running children’s TV programme (4,5)

6 1972 album by Neil Young featuring the hit singles Old Man and Heart of Gold (7)

7 A wooden structure used for hanging criminals (7)

8 The home ground of Newcastle United since 1892 (2,5,4)

9 See 56

11 See 14

14/11 Indian author whose novels include Fire on the Mountain and The Village by the Sea (5,5) 15 Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992 (3,10) 22 The winning position in chess (9)

25 Bee Gees song that was the US number one for over two months in 1978 (5,5) 26 Subtitle of the companion show to Strictly Come Dancing (2,5,3) 27 American actress whose TV roles include Carmela Soprano in The Sopranos and the title role in Nurse Jackie (4,5)

28 Mediterranean republic whose capital is Valletta (5)

29 1977 novel by Paul Scott that won the Booker Prize (7,2)

32 FIFA World Cup winners in 1978, 1986 and 2022 (9)

33 Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 (6,7)

37 The lowest rank of nobility in the British Isles (5)

38 President of the United States during World War I (7,6)

42 High school student whose alter ego is Spider-Man (5,6)

43 The only Zimbabwean bowler to have taken over

100 Test wickets (5,6)

46 The second volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by Lawrence Durrell (9)

48 Province of the Republic of Ireland whose counties include Dublin, Kildare and Kilkenny (8)

51 A light close-fitting medieval steel helmet (7)

52 A French casserole of lamb or mutton with vegetables (7)

53 Food item traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday (7)

54 Character played by Kit Harington in the TV series Game of Thrones (3,4)

56/9 1927 novel by Henry Williamson (5,3,5)

59 Character in The Addams Family in the form of a hand (5)