Jumbo General October 21, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11 Across, 29 Across and 42 Across? Connection from #746 Stella McCartney, Liv Tyler and Norah Jones are daughters of musicians

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Crossword GK Jumbo 747 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 21, 2023

Across Clues

• The capital of Albania
• Large fast-running flightless bird inhabiting the open plains of South America
• US-born Greek operatic soprano whose original surname was Kalageropoulos
• The capital and largest city of Azerbaijan
• 1997 Danny Boyle film starring Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz
• 1917 Baroness Orczy novel about the feuds between Royalists and the followers of Napoleon Bonaparte
• A small ornamented case for holding needles and other small articles
• The ___, a region of England between the North and South Downs
• The finished nonfraying edge of a length of woven fabric
• The cupbearer of the gods in Greek mythology
• The chief mountain system of W North America
• In rugby, the infringement of playing the ball forward with the hand or arm
• Ocean that existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia during much of the Mesozoic era
• ITV show originally presented by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan
• American tennis player who won the women’s singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981
• The mafia’s conspiracy of silence
• Italian actor and dramatist best known for his 1970 play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
• One name for the outer germ layer of an animal embryo
• American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate in Chicago
• The duck Anas strepera, related to the mallard
• Any of a family of primordial gods, the sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaea
• The supreme god of the ancient Greeks
• An autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee
• English poet whose works include Lines Written above Tintern Abbey and The Prelude
• Eric ___, South Shields-born member of the Monty Python comedy team
• Serbian tennis player who beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open
• A forked-tailed aquatic bird of the subfamily Sterninae
• A simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces on two sides

Down Clues

• Hollywood actress born Margarita Carmen Cansino in 1918
• Headscarf tied under the chin, worn by Russian peasant women
• Czech-born tennis player who won four Grand Slam singles titles including the Australian Open in 1980 and 1987
• The ___, 2022 BBC reality TV series based on the Dutch series De Verraders
• Brazilian footballer born Edson Arantes do Nascimento
• Irish physician whose 1753 bequest became the foundation of the British Museum and the Natural History Museum
• Former constituency whose MPs included Selwyn Lloyd and David Hunt
• See 6
• Small Faces single that reached number two on the UK singles chart in 1968
• A watertight chamber used for carrying out construction work under water
• A computer program that imitates the internal design of a microprocessor-based device such as a games console
• Chairman of Everton FC who was married to actress Anouska Hempel from 1978 to 1980
• 1980 Bruce Beresford film about a court martial, starring Edward Woodward in the title role
• Whipped filling of chocolate and cream, used in cakes and confectionery, named from the French word for “jowl”
• Henri ___, French artist who was a founder of Fauvism
• Town in Campania that was the centre of Garibaldi’s campaigns for the unification of Italy
• Latin expression indicating that no day has been appointed
• Dramatisation of Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows by A A Milne
• 1976 hit single by 10cc that features a sample from their 1974 song Clockwork Creep
• Collective name given to instruments such as flute, clarinet and oboe
• Drink traditionally served with mince pies at Christmas
• Egg-shaped wind instrument informally called a sweet potato
• Blacklisted American actress who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Felicia Karpf in Shampoo
• Tea brand with the world’s oldest continually-used company logo
• The largest genus of plants in the mint family, commonly referred to as sage
• A small stocky breed of pony with a fawn-coloured nose
• US state whose capital is Columbus
• A small brown passerine songbird of the chiefly American family Troglodytidae