General Knowledge Jumbo no. 5  by Jo and Eddie James ed.xword@btopenworld.com

Across

1Drug that kills or inhibits growth of bacteria (10)
7Wine bottle of 4 times the standard size (8)
11Legal agreement between two or more parties (8)
12Large cemetery or burial place (10)
13Collection of cells e.g. nerve, muscle (6)
14Decision of a judge or umpire in favour of one party (5)
15eg. Sandhurst or West point entrants (6)
16Long period of armed hostilities in17th C central Europe (6,5,3)
18Military association of western Europe and North America (4)
19Sacred writings (10)
21Head of a state department or of a church (8)
23Micro-organism producing disease (8)
2519th C French poet and key figure in the development of Symbolism (10)
27March date that was fatal for Julius Caesar (4)
29US jazz singer who excelled at scat singing (4,10)
32French ball game (6)
33Albrecht, 15th C German painter and engraver (5)
34Glacial period especially in the Pleistocene epoch (3,3)
36Germany's oldest university is in this city (10)
38Device to heat a room, or cool a car engine (8)
39Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps in 218BC (8)
40Art style that adheres to realistic representation (10)

Down

2Last period of the Stone Age (9)
3Rhythmical or metrical stress (5)
4Figurative illustration used e.g. by an author (7)
5Solid, four-sided triangle (11)
6Constellation represented as Greek mythological man/horse figure (9)
7Bird belonging to the crow family (7)
8US film company, ceased production in 1950s (3)
9Charles, 19th C French tight-rope walker (7)
10Greek philosopher, associated with Onassis? (9)
15Small circles of light round the sun or moon (7)
17Former German empire (5)
20Big cat! (7)
21Turkish mountain, reputed resting place of Noah's Ark (5,6)
22Surname of one of the Beatles (5)
24Constellation/galaxy named after Greek mythological princess (9)
25Swedish designed anti-aircraft weapon used in WW2 (6,3)
26e.g. voodoo, Shinto, Mormonism (9)
2812th C Egyptian sultan who precipitated the Third Crusade (7)
30Eric, Scottish Olympics gold-medal runner and missionary (7)
31Chief monetary unit of the Netherlands (7)
35Electronic message (1-4)
37Briefly, a room for scientific experiments (3)


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