The Telegraph – GK CROSSWORD NO: 534 – Jan 14 2019 Crossword Solution
The Telegraph – GK CROSSWORD NO: 534 – Jan 14 2019 Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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‘– Waltz’, the signature song of Patti Page | TENNESSEE |
— beat, a syncopated rhythm widely used in rock music | BODIDDLEY |
1973 horror film starring Deborah Walley and Paul Carr | THESEVEREDARM |
1992 film starring Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell | SCENTOFAWOMAN |
Andrew –, American chef and television personality | GRUEL |
Any of a genus of plants of the mallow family often having lobed leaves and solitary bell-shaped flowers | ABUTILON |
Capital of Bahrain | MANAMA |
City near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, in California | BAKERSFIELD |
Coniferous tree | OREGONFIR |
Genus of plants and shrubs with clusters of very small, brightly-coloured, four-petal flowers | IXORA |
Heraldic star with wavy points | ESTOILE |
Horace –, character created by the writer and barrister John Mortimer | RUMPOLE |
In the Old Testament, the second son of Jacob and Leah | SIMEON |
Ingemar –, Swedish alpine ski racer who won two gold medals at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Games | STENMARK |
Clues | Answers |
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Largest city in Scotland | GLASGOW |
London West End theatre | LYCEUM |
Musical based on the play ‘Green Grow the Lilacs’ written by Lynn Riggs | OKLAHOMA |
Novel by Edna O’Brien, published in 1972 | NIGHT |
Port on the Atlantic coast of Brazil | RECIFE |
Psychoactive alkaloid used as an experimental treatment for drug and alcohol addiction | ibogaine |
Republic of Ireland county | KILKENNY |
Son of Leontes in Shakespeare’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’ | MAMILLIUS |
Synthetic fibre characterised by its ability to recover its original form after stretching | ELASTANE |
The hero of stories by G.K. Chesterton | FATHERBROWN |
The muscular third stomach of a ruminant animal | OMASUM |
The sixth planet from the Sun | SATURN |
Ulysses S. –, the 18th President of the United States | GRANT |
West Saxon abbot of Malmesbury (639-709) | ALDHELM |