Jumbo General August 26, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13 Across, 27 Across and 47 Across? Connection from #738 Dormouse, phalanger and chameleon live in trees

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Crossword GK Jumbo 739 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 26, 2023

Across Clues

• Song by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St Louis
• Infectious disease named from the belief that it was caused by the unwholesome air in swampy districts
• Popular song by Piero Umiliani featured in The Muppet Show and The Benny Hill Show
• Crime writer who created Chief Inspector Wexford
• Original Latin name for the kumquats from 1784 until reclassified in a segregate genus, Fortunella, in 1915
• Any drug used to treat a particular disease
• English actress whose performance in the title role in David Lean’s 1970 film Ryan’s Daughter earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination
• A warm-blooded flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
• A long narrow two-edged sword with a guarded hilt
• Another name for the disease Human African trypanosomiasis
• 1972 David Bowie single that reached number 2 in the UK charts
• South American country whose capital is Quito
• 1967 Jeff Beck hit single that features Rod Stewart on backing vocals
• Ornamental Chinese tree also called a maidenhair tree
• Scottish word for an English person or a Lowland Scot
• Ben Elton’s first novel, published in 1989
• The capital of Guam
• Sir William ___, 17th-century English poet and playwright buried in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey
• American singer-songwriter who won four Grammy Awards in 2004 including Song of the Year for Dance with My Father
• Acute infectious disease also called black vomit
• Single by Desmond Dekker & The Aces that was the first reggae number one in the UK
• Dance music producer whose single Killer, introducing Seal as a vocalist, topped the charts in 1990
• Another name for chronic nephritis

Down Clues

• 1998 martial arts film directed by and starring Jackie Chan
• Latin phrase used as the title of two paintings by Nicolas Poussin, one of which is also called Les bergers d’Arcadie
• Former name for Taiwan
• American tennis player who became the first African-American woman to win a Grand Slam title in 1956
• 1897 play by Edmond Rostand based on the life of a French dramatist and duellist
• Brand of Gournay cheese advertised using the slogan: “Du pain, du vin, du ___”
• 1979 Michael Apted film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton
• Openings or indentations, as in a battlement, for shooting through
• Geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands
• Furniture item consisting of a low surface for kneeling and a rest for the elbows or books, for use when praying
• A vertical stabiliser at the rear of an aircraft
• Another name for a slaughterhouse
• 1934 novel by F Scott Fitzgerald featuring the characters Dick and Nicole Diver
• Genus of cacti that includes the prickly pear
• With Vladimir, one of the two main characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• City and comune in Lazio, Italy, that was originally a major site of the Sabine nation
• Connie ___, American TV journalist and news anchor married to talk show host Maury Povich
• South African writer and political activist awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature
• French-born composer Henry Miller described as “The stratospheric Colossus of Sound”
• 1848 work by William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled A Novel without a Hero
• 1971 film, based on the short story The Green Heart by Jack Ritchie, starring Elaine May and Walter Matthau
• Marine teleost fish of the genus Hippocampus
• Nickname given to Billie Holiday by Lester Young
• Any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds containing a characteristic chemical ring system
• A member of the Plantagenet royal line descended from Geoffrey, Count of Anjou
• The ritual washing of the priest’s hands after the offertory at Mass
• The arsenides and antimonides that form when ores containing arsenic or antimony are smelted