Jumbo General September 09, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 42 Across and 51 Across? Connection from #740 Dorothy Tutin, Annette Crosbie and Anne Stallybrass played wives in the 1970 BBC TV series The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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Crossword GK Jumbo 741 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 09, 2023

Across Clues

• 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang
• 1957 Stanley Kubrick film based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb
• Currency unit of Hungary, formerly divided into 100 fillér
• Pakistan’s largest city
• Erich Maria ___, German author best known for the novel All Quiet on the Western Front
• Scientist whose publications include The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion
• 1999 hit single by American girl group TLC
• Single by Hall & Oates that reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983
• The first President of Zambia
• See 24
• Oratorio by Edward Elgar to text from a poem by Cardinal Newman
• Singer and songwriter in The Silver Bullet Band whose hits included Night Moves and We’ve Got Tonight
• See 33
• Another name for a bird’s bastard wing
• Coastal town in Norfolk at the mouth of the River Yare
• John ___, Scottish comic actor whose TV series include Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Stella Street
• Long-tailed gallinaceous bird of the family Phasianidae
• Weather forecasting device developed by Admiral Robert FitzRoy and used on his voyage with Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle
• Former Anti-Apartheid Movement activist and Labour minister created a life peer in 2015
• Best Actress Oscar-winner for The Blind Side
• Device that controls the quantity of fuel or fuel and air mixture entering an engine
• 1985 UK number 1 single by Paul Hardcastle
• Singer-songwriter whose hits include Durham Town (The Leavin’) and The Last Farewell
• 1966 film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, based on a book of the same name by Joy Adamson
• Another name for Taurus
• Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais
• Actress whose films include Georgy Girl, The Happy Hooker and Gods and Monsters
• Actor nicknamed “The King of Hollywood”

Down Clues

• Mariah Carey’s fifth consecutive number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
• Scottish football club based in Kirkcaldy
• Cathedral city on the River Nene
• The major centre-right political party in Israel, founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin
• State of Malaysia, on the NW coast of Borneo, whose capital is Kuching
• Niccolò ___, popular Italian composer who was a rival of Gluck
• Italian port that is capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region
• A loop of elastic covered loosely with fabric, used to hold hair in a ponytail
• Genus of perennial woody fungi in the family Polyporaceae
• Anglo-Scottish border ballad from which Dorothy L Sayers took the title for her novel Strong Poison
• Spanish international defender who had a loan spell at Leeds United from Real Madrid in 2003
• The Muse of lyric poetry and music in Greek mythology
• One of six sheadings in the Isle of Man, comprising the parishes of Andreas, Bride and Lezayre
• Novel by James Joyce featuring the character Leopold Bloom
• Film for which Jessica Lange won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar
• Coconut fibre used in making rope and matting
• Rare gas that has the atomic number 18
• Sir Michael ___, English composer whose works include the operas The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam and The Knot Garden
• See 46
• Home ground of Crystal Palace FC
• Former England winger who played for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton and Burnley in the Premier League
• Another name for the African violet
• 2008 animated film for which John Cusack provided the voice of the title character
• In law, a form of evidence obtained from a witness who makes a solemn statement or declaration of fact
• Austrian composer of the operas Wozzeck and Lulu
• William ___, English playwright and poet whose comedies include Love for Love and The Way of the World
• Plant also called a wood hyacinth
• American country music singer-songwriter whose autobiography, Coal Miner’s Daughter, was made into an Oscar-winning film
• Jack ___, American novelist and poet considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation
• Steve ___, American singer-songwriter whose Grammy Award-winning albums include The Revolution Starts Now
• Board game that takes its name from the Greek for “jump”