Jumbo General August 05, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 20 Across, 40 Across and 50 Across? Connection from #735 Jesus, Corpus Christi and Pembroke are colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge

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Crossword GK Jumbo 736 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 05, 2023

Across Clues

• American dramatist whose plays include The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic
• The most celebrated of the Hindu deities, whose life story is told in the Mahabharata
• A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta
• Anti-aircraft weapon named after a place in Sweden, where it was first made
• Alison ___, British writer whose children’s books include the Little Grey Rabbit series
• City in Cambridgeshire on the River Nene
• ___ ed Euridice, 1762 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• In some card games, a set of cards declared or laid down to score points
• A line on a map linking places with the same mean summer temperature
• Popular song written by Bart Howard in 1954, originally titled In Other Words
• Wafer or cracker made of unleavened bread, usually large, thin and square, eaten especially during Passover
• One of the great European painters of the period 1500 to 1800
• Relating to the mouth or the cheek
• 1997 film written and directed by Robert Duvall, who also stars in the title role
• Jane Austen’s last completed novel
• Small Mediterranean evergreen tree from which wreaths were made and worn on the head as an emblem of victory or honour in classical times
• Rock band formed by Electric Light Orchestra member Mik Kaminski whose instrumental single Clog Dance was a hit in 1979
• London borough that is home to Wembley Stadium
• Asian tree with level spreading branches and fragrant wood
• Song with which Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest
• Name for a male deer
• Long-running BBC documentary series whose theme music is Another Green World by Brian Eno
• American actress best known for playing Rebecca Howe in the TV show Cheers
• A cocktail of rum, Curaçao and lime juice
• Song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, recorded by Iggy Pop on his 1977 album The Idiot and by David Bowie on his album Let’s Dance in 1983
• Ambrose ___, American writer best known for his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon The Devil’s Dictionary
• Daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone in the animated TV show The Flintstones
• 1994 album by Lyle Lovett featuring backing vocals from his then wife, actress Julia Roberts

Down Clues

• Alfred ___, strolling actor and trickster in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• Gustave ___, French author whose most famous novel is Madame Bovary
• Brazilian tennis player who won the first of her three ladies’ singles titles at Wimbledon in 1959
• Opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini subtitled The Useless Precaution
• Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, noted for the Rubáiyát, a collection of quatrains, popularised in the West by Edward FitzGerald
• Short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa used by Akira Kurosawa as the basis for the characters and plot of his movie Rashomon
• Stage name of Deborah Anne Dyer, lead vocalist of Skunk Anansie
• Irrational fear of cats
• 1895 science fiction novella by H G Wells featuring the Eloi and the Morlocks
• London Underground line coloured brown on the tube map
• An old lord in Shakespeare’s play All’s Well That Ends Well
• The second in the James Bond film series, and the second to star Sean Connery
• Mountainous island in W Indonesia, in the Greater Sunda Islands, separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca
• Beethoven’s only opera
• 1925 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald set on Long Island’s North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922
• “The last temptation is the greatest ___: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” (Murder in the Cathedral, T S Eliot)
• The tropical American tree Bixa orellana, whose pulpy seeds yield a yellowish-red dye
• 2004 album by Fatboy Slim
• Best Actress Oscar-winner for Annie Hall
• Sponge cake with pink and yellow square sections and an outer coating of marzipan
• In physics, a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the total heat content of a system
• The capital of Brazil since 1960
• Norfolk village north-west of Great Yarmouth that has a round-tower church
• River that rises in Switzerland and flows to the North Sea
• Formerly, the standard monetary unit of Portugal
• Liverpool rock band whose hit singles include Sandstorm, Walkaway and Flying