General Knowledge Jumbo no. 10  by Jo and Eddie James ed.xword@btopenworld.com

Across

112thC Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders (7)
5Starred in Sophie's Choice and The River Wild (5,6)
11Radio operator's acknowledgement of a message (5)
12Person trained in ancient Japanese martial arts for assassination work (5)
13Small salamanders (5)
14US tennis player, winner of 14 Grand Slam singles titles (4,7)
15Dirk, starred in Death in Venice (7)
1619thC English novelist, __ Gaskell (9)
17Precious stone set by itself – or a card game (9)
19Hypothesis that the universe was created by a cosmic explosion (3,4,6)
21e.g. liquid part of vegetable or fruit (5)
22Clear fluid separated out from clotted blood, possibly used as immunizer (5)
24A collector of butterflies and moths (13)
27Composer of Mull of Kintyre (9)
29Roger, British runner who broke 4- minute mile in 1954 (9)
31Official name of the British royal family (7)
32Emotional disorder, syndrome named after German baron storyteller (11)
33Marine barriers formed by skeletal deposits (5)
34Brazilian city, founded on Christmas Day 1597; also former province of South Africa (5)
35Person who conducts travellers, etc. (5)
36Branch of science concerned with skin (11)
37Henry David, 19thC US essayist, poet and philosopher (7)

Down

1Disease of sheep characterised by lack of co-ordination (7)
2Phenomenon caused by electrical discharge from clouds (9)
3Tanzania's largest city and former capital (3,2,6)
4Bavarian city, site of 'war criminal' trials in 1945 (9)
5Sole hereditary head of state, and name of a butterfly (7)
6Characters of the earliest Germanic alphabet (5)
7Stagename of 1930-40s US folk- blues singer (9)
8West Side Story song or David Bowie's No.1 album (7)
9King of England 1327-77, initiated the Hundred Years War (6,3)
10Ski run of compacted snow (5)
17e.g. a rapier or a claymore (5)
18Chris, ranked World No.1 tennis player five times (5)
19Broom made of twigs tied round a stick (5)
201960s youth, rejecting conventional middle-class values (5)
211930-50s US baseball player, once married to Marilyn Monroe (3,8)
23A teller of anecdotes (9)
24Italian Baroque painter, especially of church ceilings (anag. of acorn flan!) (9)
25One who believes God is present in all of nature and the universe (9)
26Lower part of the alimentary canal (9)
28Antarctic inlet of the South Pacific, named after 19thC English explorer (4,3)
29British car manufacturer, winner of Le Mans 1927-30 (7)
30Poem of 10 or 13 lines and only two rhymes (7)
31What the first 'W' of the WWF organisation stands for (5)
32Short expression of a guiding principle (5)


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