Jumbo General October 07, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10 Across, 30 Across and 54 Across? Connection from #744 George, Harris and Jerome are Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat

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Crossword GK Jumbo 745 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 07, 2023

Across Clues

• Violinist, born in Tel Aviv in 1945, who made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963
• Fictional superstate in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in which Winston Smith lives
• Drag persona of singer and actor Harris Glenn Milstead
• English singer-songwriter whose groups include Blur and Gorillaz
• The primordial god of sexual love and beauty in Greek mythology
• Portuguese football manager who won the inaugural Uefa Conference League with Roma
• 1959 book by Laurie Lee
• American rock group whose albums include Da Capo and Forever Changes
• Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry
• The herbaceous annual plant Datura discolor
• Surname of the family living at Longbourn in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
• See 41
• Actress who married singer Frank Sinatra in 1966
• A herbal infusion made from anything other than the leaves of the tea bush
• Song by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar associated with singer Al Jolson
• 1962 dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess
• The amphibian Lissotriton vulgaris
• Place of worship for Zoroastrians
• A very light narrow racing boat
• Sea connecting the Atlantic and Arctic oceans
• 1959 film based on a novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis
• Breed of horse mainly used for riding
• Actress whose film career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987
• In Jewish folklore, Adam’s first wife
• Singer whose backing band was The Blockheads
• Actor who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in The Fortune Cookie

Down Clues

• Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba
• See 8
• Form of regional anaesthesia often used in childbirth
• 1942 Oscar-winning film based on a series of newspaper columns by Jan Struther
• Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas, first established as a public body in 1963
• See 48
• Leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Character in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor who is in love with Master Fenton
• Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea whose highest point is Mount Fengari
• Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Resort on the French Riviera, close to the Italian border, nicknamed “la perle de la France”
• Patriotic song written by George M Cohan during World War I
• A small piece of metal suspended within a bell that causes it to sound when made to strike against its side
• Romanian professional tennis player who was World Number 1 between August 1973 and June 1974
• The female of the ruff
• The tenth novel by Hermann Hesse
• Caribbean island nation whose capital is Kingston
• Son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan
• 1960 film starring Jimmy Edwards in a spin-off of his TV comedy series Whack-O!
• The birthplace of Robert Burns
• 1983 album by U2
• Former world middleweight and super middleweight boxing champion known as “The Dark Destroyer”
• Political exclave in Europe that existed between 1949 and 1990
• The second wife of King Henry VIII
• 1983 single by Grandmaster Melle Mel subtitled Don’t Don’t Do It
• Genus of spring ephemeral perennials, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia
• A picture or sculpture of Christ crowned with thorns
• Of music, having no established key
• The Australian cockatoo Kakatoe roseicapilla
• Scottish physician and writer who created Sherlock Holmes
• See 34
• US state whose capital is Des Moines
• Figure skating jump named after the Austrian skater who first performed it in 1913