The Telegraph General Knowledge - Crossword Answers | 2018 12 31

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Jacques --, French composer of the humorous orchestral 'Divertissement' IBERT
The 44th President of the United States BARACKOBAMA
Ancient kingdom: its chief cities were Assur and Nineveh ASSYRIA
Novel by James Patterson and David Ellis, published in 2013 MISTRESS
1988 film directed by Roman Polanski FRANTIC
1939 play by Sumner Locke Elliott; 1973 film starring Merle Oberon INTERVAL
Region of London north of Oxford Street and west of Tottenham Court Road FITZROVIA
2017 film starring Hugh Bonneville VICEROYSHOUSE
Erik --, French composer who influenced Debussy and Ravel SATIE
1940 film starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland ARISEMYLOVE
1983 political thriller film starring Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman UNDERFIRE
French film director associated with the New Wave of the 1960s JEANLUCGODARD
Marine creature that populates North Atlantic coastal waters GREYSEAL
LARGE FLIGHTLESS BIRD OSTRICH
Javanese instrument for applying hot wax in batik work TJANTING
Pneumatic air-oil hydraulic shock absorber used on the landing gear of aircraft OLEOSTRUT
Jorge --, Venezuelan world champion boxer LINARES
CAPITAL OF GREECE ATHENS
Revolvable platform on a microscope on which specimens are examined TURNTABLE
Large yellow lepidopteran insect IOMOTH
MUSICAL BY RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN CAROUSEL
'The -- of Malta', historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published posthumously SIEGE
In the Jewish calendar, the first month of the religious year NISAN
Dorothy L. --, detective-story writer SAYERS
Small satellite of Jupiter in an intermediate orbit LYSITHEA
One of the main characters in Kenneth Grahame's 'Wind in the Willows' MRTOAD
In old Scottish law, to invest with heritable property INFEFT
JOHN --, AUTHOR OF THE NOVEL 'ROOM AT THE TOP' BRAINE