Jumbo General December 16, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 23 Across and 43 Across? Connection from #754 Paul Jones, Dark Star and Cavalcade are Kentucky Derby winners

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Crossword GK Jumbo 755 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 16, 2023

Across Clues

• 1791 Mozart opera based on the life of a Roman emperor
• The second book of the Old Testament
• Canadian actress born Gladys Louise Smith in 1892
• Astronomical instrument or telescope mounting devised by George Airy in 1847
• American pianist and bandleader whose theme song was Artistry in Rhythm
• Ben ___, English sailor, winner of four Olympic gold medals, who is Team Principal, CEO and Skipper of INEOS Britannia
• Country whose capital is Baku
• Puppet created by Shari Lewis in 1957
• English actor, director and composer who won an Oscar for the Best Music in an Original Dramatic Score for the 1952 film Limelight
• William Schwenck ___, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with Sir Arthur Sullivan
• Commune on the northern edge of the Pyrenees, capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
• The essential nutrient L-ascorbic acid
• François ___, French Renaissance writer whose best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36
• Irish DJ and TV presenter married to DJ Toddla T
• The root vegetable Apium graveolens rapaceum
• Phil Collins song from the film Buster that topped the US Hot 100 for two weeks in 1989
• Losing FA Cup finalists in 1984
• Song from Chess that gave Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson a Number 1 single in 1985
• Currency unit of Peru
• Director of the films The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance
• The traditional idealised rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry
• Friedrich ___, German geologist who developed a hardness scale for minerals
• Another name for the card game hearts
• Tragedy by Federico García Lorca first performed in Madrid in March 1933
• See 16
• The first British football team to win a European trophy

Down Clues

• Best Actress Oscar nominee for The Collector
• 2009 album by Carrie Underwood, her second to debut at Number 1 on the Billboard charts
• Royal Navy I-class destroyer that sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands on 1 September 1940
• Character in the Star Wars saga who becomes Darth Vader
• Petroleum distillate that boils above about 250 degrees Celsius
• Dorset river that rises in Alton Pancras and flows to Poole Harbour via Wareham Channel
• The capital of Albania
• Epic 1962 Western which follows four generations of a family as they move from New York state to the Pacific Ocean
• Fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe who is a member of the intergalactic enforcers known as the Starjammers
• The nest of a hare
• Horse that won the 2014 Derby
• Pastoral poem by John Milton published in 1645
• 1967 film by Luis Buñuel based upon a 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel
• Crystalline compound also called saltpetre
• The final opera by Richard Strauss
• An archaic name for brandy, meaning “water of life”
• Football team that appointed Bill Shankly as manager in December 1959
• Welsh progressive rock group evolved out of The Bystanders
• Small almond-flavoured cakes said to date back to Henry VIII’s court in 1525
• Nickname of the character played by Sophie Aldred in the TV series Dr Who
• Opera by Jacques Offenbach whose most famous aria is the Barcarolle, from Act 2
• See 4
• See 36 Across
• Eric ___, British author whose novels include The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear
• With Atropos and Lachesis, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology
• The capital of Tanzania
• In Greek mythology, a gorgon beheaded by Perseus
• Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a book by T S Eliot