The Independent Jumbo-general-knowledge for 2026-02-21 Solution - Crossword Answers.

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11 Across : The 16th president of the United States of America
13 Across : Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in war
14 Across : Element of the halogen group whose atomic number is 53
15 Across : Actor best known for playing Neil in the TV series The Young Ones
16 Across : The plant Verbascum thapsus, that has woolly leaves and tall erect spikes of yellow flowers
17 Across : Roman general and governor of Britain who advanced Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth
20 Across : SI derived unit of magnetic flux density
21 Across : Italian adventurer famous for his autobiography, Histoire de ma vie
23 Across : Mexican tortilla containing cheese and other ingredients, folded in half to form a half-moon shape
25 Across : BBC sitcom written by Carla Lane that starred Felicity Kendal as Gemma Palmer
27 Across : See 15
30 Across : Michael Jackson's first solo album on Epic Records, produced by Quincy Jones
32 Across : 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers
34 Across : First season observed in the Western Christian church year
36 Across : Nickname of the first US presidential aircraft
38 Across : French drink made from barley or almonds, and orange flower water
39 Across : The capital of Slovakia
40 Across : French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973
42 Across : River on which Shrewsbury stands
44 Across : The former name of Thailand
46 Across : Greek-born economist convicted of perverting the course of justice with her former husband, MP Chris Huhne, in 2013
49 Across : Technical name for the collarbone
51 Across : 1884 opera by Jules Massenet based on a 1731 novel by the Abbé Prévost
52 Across : Town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, that grew up round an abbey founded in 666
54 Across : A recurring movement in Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
56 Across : African country whose capital is Cairo
57 Across : 1985 Ron Howard film whose stars include Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
60 Across : Oscar-winning 2001 film based on the life of John Forbes Nash

All Down Clues and Answers:

1 Down : Spanish river which flows into the Mediterranean Sea at Tarragona
2 Down : Largest island of French Polynesia
3 Down : Solitary leporid mammal that lives in a form
4 Down : The youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team
5 Down : Gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods
6 Down : The capital of Turkey
7 Down : A wart, especially one growing on the hand or foot
8 Down : Welsh actor best known for playing the title role in the TV series Hornblower
9 Down : Any elementary particle capable of taking part in a strong nuclear interaction
10 Down : A clear, colourless fruit brandy produced by fermentation and double distillation
12 Down : 1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin Britten
18 Down : See 8
19 Down : The ___, monthly magazine launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams
22 Down : Japanese city that hosted the first Winter Olympics held in Asia
24 Down : 1965 Top 10 hit for The Kinks whose B-side was I Need You
26 Down : Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Syringa
28 Down : Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth
29 Down : A fairy servant to Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
31 Down : Town in Umbria that was the birthplace of St Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order there in 1208
32 Down : A long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal of Africa and South Asia
33 Down : A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, with a retractable hood over the rear half
35 Down : 1997 James Cameron film that won 11 Academy Awards
37 Down : Omnivorous mammal of the genera Nasua and Nasuella, of Central and South America
40 Down : 1957 film that gave Elvis Presley his first starring role, as singing delivery man Deke Rivers
41 Down : Joe ___, former England footballer who managed Oldham Athletic, Everton, Manchester City and Ipswich Town
43 Down : The great circle on the celestial sphere representing the apparent annual path of the sun relative to the stars
45 Down : City in California that was the capital of Spain's Pacific empire from 1774 to 1825
47 Down : 1988 film starring Tom Cruise as a business student who takes up bartending
48 Down : French port city whose name means "the harbour"
50 Down : Religious cult associated with Haiti
51 Down : In classical mythology, a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
53 Down : An industrial port in Washington, on Puget Sound
55 Down : Town in North Holland on the IJsselmeer noted for its cheese
57 Down : The common European freshwater fish Squalius cephalus
58 Down : 1980s British comic whose contributors included Marc "Lard" Riley and Charlie Brooker

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