Jumbo General October 28, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 27 Across and 51 Across? Connection from #747 Rhea, Tethys and Titan are moons of Saturn

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Crossword GK Jumbo 748 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 28, 2023

Across Clues

• Cooking-based reality show created by Gordon Ramsay in 2004
• UK and Commonwealth Games men’s 400m record holder who appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2009
• English theoretical physicist and cosmologist who wrote A Brief History of Time
• A computer program by which a high-level programming language is converted into machine language
• Roberta ___, American singer whose hit singles include The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Killing Me Softly with His Song
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for Training Day and Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner for Glory
• Carbonated sweetened beverage, originally made using the root or bark of a sassafras plant
• 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein whose most celebrated scene is the massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps
• Cornish drummer whose surname formed half of the name of a successful band of the 1960s and 1970s
• Style of unison unaccompanied vocal music also called plainsong
• American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter best known for Blueberry Hill
• American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer whose films include Nashville, 9 to 5 and All of Me
• The original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
• Another name for the constellation the Southern Cross
• Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892
• See 21
• 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
• See 29
• Taylor Swift’s second studio album, released in 2008
• Actress who made her film debut in The Color Purple, for which she received an Oscar nomination
• Member of the girl group Precious who replaced Kerry Katona in Atomic Kitten in 2001
• An elevated temperature that occurs when the body produces or absorbs more heat than it can dissipate

Down Clues

• American actor and comedian who played the Cowardly Lion/Zeke in The Wizard of Oz
• A size of writing paper that is 23 by 28 inches
• The largest island of the Inner Hebrides
• ___ Airways, airline established in Abu Dhabi in 2003
• 1946 play by Terence Rattigan about a 14-year-old expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft
• 1980 animated series about a character created by David McKee
• American TV series based on the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar
• Surrey town in which Paul Weller was born
• Body of water named after a tribe of Native Americans who lived along its southern shore
• Beautiful ___, 1976 album by Neil Diamond
• 1969 Top Ten hit single by Booker T & The MG’s
• US state whose capital is Tallahassee
• The capital of Afghanistan
• A member of the English political party that opposed the succession to the throne of James, Duke of York
• British popular novelist, whose real name was Marie Louise de la Ramee, best known for Under Two Flags
• Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera subtitled The Town of Titipu
• The capital of the canton of Valais in Switzerland
• The capital of Mauritius
• A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a set of hardwood plates over tuned metal resonators
• Erich ___, German author best known for the children’s story Emil and the Detectives
• The third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and “41 Across”
• A circular window, especially in 17th- and 18th-century French architecture
• 1963 number one single by Gerry & the Pacemakers
• See 9
• See 6
• A hip-length or knee-length garment, such as the loose sleeveless garb worn in ancient Greece or Rome
• Central European river that rises in the Czech Republic and flows into the Gulf of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea
• Ray ___, American author whose works include the novel Fahrenheit 451
• Historical county occupying almost a quarter of the total area of Northern Ireland
• The oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War
• Turner & ___, 1989 film starring Tom Hanks
• Rabindranath ___, Indian poet and philosopher who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913
• 90-mile river which flows through Cumbria into the Solway Firth
• The derived SI unit of power
• See 1
• 1923 play by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, based on a short story of the same name by W Somerset Maugham