Jumbo General September 16, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 8 Across, 27 Across and 56 Across? Connection from #741 Richard Dawkins, Peter Hain and Roger Whittaker were born in Nairobi

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Crossword GK Jumbo 742 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 16, 2023

Across Clues

• The yellow-flowered ranunculaceous plant Caltha palustris, also called kingcup
• American soul singer shot dead by the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles in 1964
• American actor best known for playing Dr Peter Benton in ER
• Another name for a polygraph
• Title of the second album by The Nice, from an aphorism attributed to Hippocrates
• The second son of Adam and Eve
• Popular Isle of Wight seaside resort on Sandown Bay
• Italian town that was a major Mediterranean port from the 10th to the 18th century
• New York-based R&B girl group best known for their 1997 hit single All Cried Out with 112
• A mountain range in Victoria also known by the name Gariwerd
• Comedian whose TV series included Up Pompeii!
• Fear of the number 13
• The third largest city in the Canton of Zürich
• Either of two points lying at the extremities of an eccentric orbit of a planet, satellite, etc.
• Poem written by Wilfred Owen in 1917 and published posthumously in 1920
• French poet, journalist, and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921
• 1952 Howard Hawks western starring Kirk Douglas, Arthur Hunnicutt and Dewey Martin
• Traditional herbal liqueur similar to absinthe from the Savoy region of Europe
• The fourth studio album by Pearl Jam, released in 1996
• Projectile containing a number of small pellets or bullets exploded before impact, named after the English army officer who invented it
• Communications code word for the letter P
• Novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952
• Actress chosen by Charlie Chaplin to appear in his film Limelight
• 1983 single by The Smiths covered by Sandie Shaw a year later
• Troilus and ___, 1602 tragedy by William Shakespeare
• TV presenter who won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow

Down Clues

• In classical mythology, women participants in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
• French city that was the scene of the coronation of most French monarchs
• The evergreen Mediterranean tree Quercus ilex
• Common name for Southern African tree, traditionally used to make Zulu spears
• See 35
• A double fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with other abdominal organs
• Friend and attendant of Octavius in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
• Rock group whose hits included A Horse with No Name
• Native American people living in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
• 16-day festival held each year in Munich
• American jazz pianist and composer whose ballad Misty has become a jazz standard
• Lover of Beatrice in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
• Globular clouds at about 6,500 feet to 20,000 feet
• Pioneer company in arcade games, home video game consoles and home computers with a logo based on Mount Fuji
• 1997 sci-fi film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law
• The remains of a Neolithic burial cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire
• In Greek mythology, the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth
• Peter ___, New Zealand middle-distance runner who won three Olympic gold medals
• Pete ___, music journalist best known for his Rock Family Trees
• Actress whose TV roles include Tanya Pooley in Coronation Street
• English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
• Market town that was once the central Cinque Port, between Hastings and New Romney to the west and Dover and Sandwich to the east
• Port in Brittany that is France’s chief naval station
• Film that won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress
• German city that is the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr
• Title shared by hit singles for Bryan Adams, Rage, Whitney Houston and Roxette
• In the New Testament, a Pharisee who supported Jesus against the other Pharisees
• In the Old Testament, the son of Phinehas, born on the day that the Israelites’ Ark of God was taken into Philistine captivity
• Former standard monetary unit of Greece, replaced by the euro in 2002
• Roman Emperor from AD 117 to 138
• The inability or refusal to swallow
• See 29
• Syrup derived from the dried rhizome and roots of a Brazilian plant that is used as an emetic
• See 12
• The Finnish name for Finland
• Greek god of war, identified with Roman Mars