Jumbo General July 15, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13 Across, 43 Across and 48 Across? Connection from #732 Carol Vorderman, Hugh Laurie and Michael Morpurgo got third class degrees

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Crossword GK Jumbo 733 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 15, 2023

Across Clues

• Former World Welterweight Champion boxer born Leonardo Liotta in Boston in 1932
• Sentimental ballad by Henry W Armstrong associated with British music hall singer Gertie Gitana
• The main river of Australia
• The liturgical headdress of a bishop or abbot
• The second longest river in Africa
• ___ Is My Washpot, 1997 autobiography by Stephen Fry
• Bulgarian-born novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981
• Small Faces single that reached number two on the UK singles chart in 1968
• Mötley Crüe drummer who married Pamela Anderson in 1995 four days after meeting her
• The most important prophet in Judaism
• Work by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on Princess Royal, Admiral Benbow and Portsmouth
• 1982 film, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture
• Group whose biggest hit, In a Broken Dream, featured Rod Stewart as guest vocalist
• A handsome youth in Greek mythology killed by a wild boar
• Sudanese football club based in a suburb of Omdurman
• Members of any of various chiefly mendicant religious orders
• African country whose capital is Malabo
• Japanese system of self-defence employing similar principles to judo
• Powerful Asian maritime figure also known as Gungbok
• The highest peak in North America
• Station on a baseball diamond also known as the keystone sack
• County of E England, on the North Sea and the Wash
• Race of cybernetic organisms in the Star Trek universe against which “resistance is futile”
• One-hit wonders who had a 1987 hit with Pump Up the Volume
• First legislator of ancient Athens, 7th century BC
• Ancient country, divided between modern day Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey
• American composer who pioneered minimalist music
• 1936 novel by Winifred Holtby

Down Clues

• Christian ___, Ghanaian winger, formerly at Chelsea, Everton, Bournemouth and Newcastle United, who died in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
• Lead singer of the Irish folk-pop siblings The Corrs
• Lead singer of Orange Juice who had a big solo hit with A Girl Like You in 1995
• A leader of prayers in a mosque
• American jazz pianist who posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989
• Bird of the family Columbidae
• A thin pancake folded over a filling usually of apple, cream cheese or meat
• Natalya ___, 1988 Olympic women’s shot put champion whose world record set in 1987 still stands
• The Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas
• See 27
• Weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 to 1982
• Word indicating the maiden name of a married woman
• 1965 number one single by Tom Jones
• Singer and actress whose hits include Like a Virgin and Vogue
• Bedrich ___, Czech composer whose works include the opera The Bartered Bride
• Spanish tenor and conductor who was one of the Three Tenors
• A member of a mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of S India and Sri Lanka
• See 18
• American-bred horse that won the Derby in 2003
• Novel by Mary Shelley subtitled The Modern Prometheus
• The animal Cervus elaphus
• American food conglomerate based on a company founded in Ohio in 1901
• Woodwind instrument used chiefly in baroque music
• British king succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII
• Founder of Folkways Records in 1948
• Case in which bottles may be locked with their contents visible
• Tony ___, English snooker player who won the British Open in 1989
• UK manufacturer of plastic scale model kits
• Character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who is in love with Lysander
• Form of dark matter that is integral to the plot of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy of novels
• The third largest of the Hawaiian Islands
• See 11