The Independent's Jumbo Crossword 26 August 2023 Answers

Please find below all the The Independent's Jumbo Crossword 26 August 2023 Answers. This is one of the most popular crossword puzzles available for both online and in print version. Today's puzzle (26 August 2023) has a total of 50 crossword clues. If you are stuck and are looking for help then you have come to the right place.

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Infectious disease named from the belief that it was caused by the unwholesome air in swampy districts

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Crime writer who created Chief Inspector Wexford

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Original Latin name for the kumquats from 1784 until reclassified in a segregate genus Fortunella in 1915

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Any drug used to treat a particular disease

English actress whose performance in the title role in David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination

A warm-blooded flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods

A long narrow two-edged sword with a guarded hilt

Another name for the disease Human African trypanosomiasis

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1972 David Bowie single that reached number 2 in the UK charts

South American country whose capital is Quito

1967 Jeff Beck hit single that features Rod Stewart on backing vocals

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Ornamental Chinese tree also called a maidenhair tree

Scottish word for an English person or a Lowland Scot

Ben Elton's first novel published in 1989

The capital of Guam

Sir William ___ 17th-century English poet and playwright buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey

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Acute infectious disease also called black vomit

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Single by Desmond Dekker & The Aces that was the first reggae number one in the UK

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Dance music producer whose single Killer introducing Seal as a vocalist topped the charts in 1990

Another name for chronic nephritis

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1998 martial arts film directed by and starring Jackie Chan

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Former name for Taiwan

American tennis player who became the first African-American woman to win a Grand Slam title in 1956

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1897 play by Edmond Rostand based on the life of a French dramatist and duellist

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Brand of Gournay cheese advertised using the slogan: Du pain du vin du ___

1979 Michael Apted film starring Vanessa Redgrave Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton

Openings or indentations as in a battlement for shooting through

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Geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium France and the Netherlands

Furniture item consisting of a low surface for kneeling and a rest for the elbows or books for use when praying

A vertical stabiliser at the rear of an aircraft

Another name for a slaughterhouse

1934 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald featuring the characters Dick and Nicole Diver

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Genus of cacti that includes the prickly pear

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City and comune in Lazio Italy that was originally a major site of the Sabine nation

Connie ___ American TV journalist and news anchor married to talk show host Maury Povich

South African writer and political activist awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature

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French-born composer Henry Miller described as The stratospheric Colossus of Sound

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1971 film based on the short story The Green Heart by Jack Ritchie starring Elaine May and Walter Matthau

Marine teleost fish of the genus Hippocampus

Nickname given to Billie Holiday by Lester Young

Any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds containing a characteristic chemical ring system

A member of the Plantagenet royal line descended from Geoffrey Count of Anjou

The ritual washing of the priest's hands after the offertory at Mass

The arsenides and antimonides that form when ores containing arsenic or antimony are smelted

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Facts and Figures

There are a total of 50 clues in the 26 August 2023 The Independent's Jumbo Crossword puzzle.
The shortest answer is SARAH which contains 5 Characters.
English actress whose performance in the title role in David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination is the crossword clue of the shortest answer.
The longest answer is SLEEPINGSICKNESS which contains 16 Characters.
Another name for the disease Human African trypanosomiasis is the crossword clue of the longest answer.
The unused letters in 26 August 2023 The Independent's Jumbo Crossword puzzle are Q,X,Z