Jumbo General June 24, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8 Across, 39 Across and 58 Across? Connection from #729 Montgomery Clift, Benjamin Britten and Compton MacKenzie had Edward as their first name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 730 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 24, 2023

Across Clues

• Austrian painter who founded the Vienna Sezession in 1897
• US state whose capital is Bismarck
• Child prodigy who graduated from Oxford University in 1985 at the age of 13
• Cud-chewing mammal with Arabian and Bactrian varieties
• 1985 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa
• 2008 film starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes
• Irish dramatist whose plays include The Rivals and School for Scandal
• Latin phrase meaning ‘by delegation to’
• American comedian, writer and actor whose real first names are Cornelius Crane
• Charity formerly known as The Spastics Society
• American actor who played the inventor in Tim Burton’s film Edward Scissorhands
• The first document forced onto an English king by a group of his subjects
• English county whose administrative centre is Chichester
• 1952 novel by John Steinbeck featuring the Trasks and the Hamiltons
• Infectious disease affecting the liver spread by blood-to-blood contact
• French sculptor whose works include The Burghers of Calais
• Japanese city situated at the mouth of the Yodo River
• BBC programme showcasing the best in international documentaries
• Taiwanese-born director, screenwriter and producer whose films include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi
• Debut 1940 novel by American author Carson McCullers
• See 14
• In Genesis, the son of Peleg and the father of Serug, thus Abraham’s great-great-grandfather
• The sixth sign of the zodiac
• César ___, Swiss hotelier who founded several hotels, most famously in Paris and London
• American singer born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in 1926
• Norwegian Symbolist painter whose best-known work is The Scream

Down Clues

• 1964 film depicting the Battle of Rorke’s Drift
• Single by Danny & the Juniors that topped the US Billboard chart in 1958
• Nickname of former England Test cricketer Pelham Warner
• Italian town that was a major Mediterranean port from the 10th to the 18th century
• Anglo-Irish poet and courtier buried in Westminster Abbey whose works include The Sophy and Cooper’s Hill
• 1999 film starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino, based on the essay To See and Not to See by Oliver Sacks
• Yellow Italian herbal liqueur produced since 1860 in Benevento, Campania
• Arantxa Sánchez ___, Spanish tennis player who won the French Open for the third time in 1998
• London Underground station between Loughton and Theydon Bois on the Central Line
• The New Zealand coniferous tree Agathis australis
• An elder of a congregation in the early Christian Church
• East Anglian tribe led by Queen Boudicca
• Lancashire town in the Forest of Rossendale
• Für ___, common name for Ludwig van Beethoven’s Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor for solo piano
• Lover of Hero in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing
• A metal spike be driven into a crevice of rock or into ice and used to secure a ropein mountaineering
• Another name for the green woodpecker
• A free warrior-peasant who served as a member of the tsar’s cavalry
• Edith ___, English author whose works include The Railway Children and Five Children and It
• Popular and official name for the women’s branch of the Royal Navy during World Wars I and II
• City in France that is the capital of the Loire département
• The second brightest star in Perseus
• Nickname of American boxer Marvin Hagler
• American actor whose film roles include Peter Quill/Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy series
• Peter ___, New Zealand runner who won gold medals at three successive Olympics
• The goddess of peace in Greek mythology
• Kent town whose “International” station opened in 1994
• Racehorse who won both the Epsom and the Irish Derby in 1991
• 1964 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery
• District of Newcastle upon Tyne bordered by Walkergate, Jesmond, Byker and Sandyford
• Surname of Nelson’s flag-captain at the Battle of Trafalgar
• US state whose capital is Carson City
• The standard monetary unit of Iran
• A small parasitic arachnid of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae