The Independent's Jumbo Crossword 5 August 2023 Answers

Please find below all the The Independent's Jumbo Crossword 5 August 2023 Answers. This is one of the most popular crossword puzzles available for both online and in print version. Today's puzzle (5 August 2023) has a total of 54 crossword clues. If you are stuck and are looking for help then you have come to the right place.

American dramatist whose plays include [The Children's Hour The Little Foxes Toys in the Attic]

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The most celebrated of the Hindu deities whose life story is told in the Mahabharata

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta

Anti-aircraft weapon named after a place in Sweden where it was first made

Alison ___ British writer whose children's books include the Little Grey Rabbit series

City in Cambridgeshire on the River Nene

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___ ed Euridice 1762 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

In some card games a set of cards declared or laid down to score points

A line on a map linking places with the same mean summer temperature

P In Other Words o

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12O

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Wafer or cracker made of unleavened bread usually large thin and square eaten especially during Passover

One of the great European painters of the period 1500 to 1800

Relating to the mouth or the cheek

1997 film written and directed by Robert Duvall who also stars in the title role

10E

Jane Austen's last completed novel

10N

Small Mediterranean evergreen tree from which wreaths were made and worn on the head as an emblem of victory or honour in classical times

Rock band formed by Electric Light Orchestra member Mik Kaminski whose instrumental single Clog Dance was a hit in 1979

London borough that is home to Wembley Stadium

Asian tree with level spreading branches and fragrant wood

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13O

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Song with which Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest

Name for a male deer

Long-running BBC documentary series whose theme music is Another Green World by Brian Eno

A Cheers m

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12Y

A cocktail of rum Curaçao and lime juice

Song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop recorded by Iggy Pop on his 1977 album [The Idiot Let's Dance ] and by David Bowie on his album

Ambrose ___ American writer best known for his short story [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Devil's Dictionary] and his satirical lexicon

D The Flintstones a

1994 album by Lyle Lovett featuring backing vocals from his then wife actress Julia Roberts

10Y

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Alfred ___ strolling actor and trickster in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

G Madame Bovary u

Brazilian tennis player who won the first of her three ladies' singles titles at Wimbledon in 1959

10O

O The Useless Precaution p

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Persian poet mathematician and astronomer noted for the Rubáiyát a collection of quatrains popularised in the West by Edward FitzGerald

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S Rashomon h

Stage name of Deborah Anne Dyer lead vocalist of Skunk Anansie

Irrational fear of cats

10B

11I

12A

1895 science fiction novella by H G Wells featuring the Eloi and the Morlocks

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11H

12I

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London Underground line coloured brown on the tube map

A All's Well That Ends Well n

The second in the James Bond film series and the second to star Sean Connery

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11W

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Mountainous island in W Indonesia in the Greater Sunda Islands separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca

Beethoven's only opera

1925 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set on Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922

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11T

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The last temptation is the greatest ___: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ( Murder in the Cathedral T S Eliot)

The tropical American tree Bixa orellana whose pulpy seeds yield a yellowish-red dye

2004 album by Fatboy Slim

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11L

12E

B Annie Hall e

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11N

Sponge cake with pink and yellow square sections and an outer coating of marzipan

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In physics a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system

The capital of Brazil since 1960

Norfolk village north-west of Great Yarmouth that has a round-tower church

River that rises in Switzerland and flows to the North Sea

Formerly the standard monetary unit of Portugal

Liverpool rock band whose hit singles include [Sandstorm Walkaway Flying]

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Facts and Figures

There are a total of 54 clues in the 5 August 2023 The Independent's Jumbo Crossword puzzle.
The shortest answer is MELD which contains 4 Characters.
In some card games a set of cards declared or laid down to score points is the crossword clue of the shortest answer.
The longest answer is THEBARBEROFSEVILLE which contains 18 Characters.
O The Useless Precaution p is the crossword clue of the longest answer.
The unused letters in 5 August 2023 The Independent's Jumbo Crossword puzzle are Q,X