Jumbo General July 08, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8 Across, 23 Across and 44 Across? Connection from #731 Harrison, Harding and Garfield are US presidents who died in office

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Crossword GK Jumbo 732 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 08, 2023

Across Clues

• Co-host of Countdown from 1982 to 2008
• Shakespeare tragedy about a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king
• See 17
• Tree of the genus Diospyros that has hard dark wood
• Town and former burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland
• Card game for two, played with 32 cards and king high
• American blues guitarist and singer known as “The Velvet Bulldozer”
• Area of southeastern Europe whose northern boundary is often given as the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers
• The national gemstone of Australia
• 2009 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron
• English actor, comedian, writer and musician who played the title role in House from 2004 to 2012
• The opening track and lead single from The Rolling Stones’ 1971 album Sticky Fingers
• A gum resin used as the source of a yellow pigment and as a purgative
• Communications code word for the letter P
• The second largest city in Japan by population
• See 35
• American western TV series that starred James Garner in the title role
• Real name of the author George Orwell
• The forage plant Medicago sativa, also called lucerne
• Painter and printmaker who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life
• 1998 French Open tennis champion who briefly replaced Pete Sampras as world number one in March 1999
• The indigenous religion of Japan
• The flat part of a feather, consisting of two rows of barbs on either side of the shaft
• Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005
• The seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar
• African country whose capital is Luanda
• Liliaceous plant of China and Japan cultivated especially for its ornamental foliage
• John ___, manager of West Ham United from 1974 to 1989
• Variety of chalcedony whose formula is SiO2
• See 11 Down
• 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien

Down Clues

• 1973 Elton John single that reached number four in the UK and number two in the US
• Henry Wadsworth ___, American poet best known for The Song of Hiawatha
• Constellation containing the first magnitude stars Betelgeuse and Rigel
• Hollywood actress born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna in 1913
• A period of unusually settled warm weather in autumn
• Umbelliferous plant whose aromatic seeds, leaves, and stems are used in medicine and cookery
• Song by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson Thompson that gave Elvis Presley and Pet Shop Boys hit singles
• Three-week bicycle stage race, first held in 1935, that is one of the three “Grand Tours” of Europe
• The capital of Belarus
• English comic actor and comedian whose roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, J Peasemold Gruntfuttock and Sandy
• Perennial saxifragaceous plant cultivated for its ornamental spikes or panicles of pink or white flowers
• Another name for cross-country skiing
• Athletic training discipline in which practitioners (called traceurs) attempt to get from point A to point B in the fastest and most efficient way possible
• Surname of George and Mildred in the 70s sitcom
• African country whose capital is Accra
• See 7
• English singer-songwriter born Declan Patrick MacManus
• 1963 comic novel by Spike Milligan
• 1991 John Landis film starring Sylvester Stallone that is a remake of a 1967 French film of the same name
• American actor and comedian who found fame playing Jodie Dallas on the US sitcom Soap
• Draper who was the subject of a 1782 comic ballad by William Cowper
• Province of Canada whose capital is Halifax
• A dry red wine produced in Tuscany
• A collapsible item of headwear also called a gibus
• The largest city in Tennessee
• Fairground game in which a player throws a ring over an object to try to win it
• Mountain system extending over 2000km from the Arctic Ocean towards the Aral Sea
• The capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia
• 1955 film directed by Delbert Mann that won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d’Or