Jumbo General June 01, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 20 Across and 53 Across? Connection from #778 Lepanto, Manzoni and Bologna are stations on the Rome Metro

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Crossword GK Jumbo 779 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 01, 2024

Across Clues

• The quantity of liquid lost from a container due to leakage or evaporation
• Italian composer whose works include the suites The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome
• American actor whose films include Some Like It Hot, Spartacus and The Boston Strangler
• Play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in 1879
• See 27
• 1980s Channel 4 TV series starring Peter Bowles as Major Yeates
• Handsome youth in Greek mythology who was loved by Aphrodite
• American jazz drummer hired to play in Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra in 1938
• Very hard brittle bluish-white metal with the atomic number 76
• Bird also called a green plover or pewit
• British music hall song written by Charles Collins, Fred E Terry and E A Sheppard for Harry Champion
• French couturier who popularised trousers for women
• A set of transparencies of facial characteristics that can be used to build up a picture of a person sought by the police
• Instrument formerly used to measure the altitude of stars and planets and as a navigational aid
• Nicolas __, British-born director whose films include Don’t Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Host who introduced the Beatles to American TV audiences in February 1964
• The Greatest ___, 2017 musical film starring Hugh Jackman as P T Barnum
• See 43
• Horse that halted Red Rum’s winning run at the Grand National in 1975
• Ethiopian athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Olympics, known as “the Shifter”
• The largest city in Louisiana
• Play by Harold Pinter first performed in April 1960
• Dutch actor who played replicant Roy Batty in the 1982 film Blade Runner
• US sitcom that launched the career of Michael J Fox
• Small seabird that is the only member of the genus Halocyptena
• Character in the BBC sitcom Blackadder II played by Patsy Byrne

Down Clues

• 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino
• A subatomic particle with a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton
• 1988 film starring Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell
• Diminutive hero of several English folk tales whose name was used by Charles Stratton in P T Barnum’s circus
• American soul singer who died in a plane crash a month before his biggest hit, (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay, was released
• Former Essex wicketkeeper and captain nicknamed “Tonker”
• Young salmon which returns to fresh water after one winter in the sea
• David Bowie’s seventh studio album, made up of covers
• The Cambodian communist party which seized power in a civil war in 1975
• Character in the Matrix film series played by Keanu Reeves
• In music, a brisk lively movement whose name means ‘joke’ in Italian
• An electronic valve with three electrodes
• BBC news and current affairs programme first broadcast in 1980
• An opinion or doctrine contrary to the orthodox tenets of a church
• In Britain, another name for hawthorn, cowslip or marsh marigold
• The northernmost county of England
• A book of the texts used in Mass throughout the year
• 1953 John Huston film, written with Truman Capote, intended as a parody of The Maltese Falcon
• Male orca at SeaWorld San Diego in California captured in Iceland in 1980
• Irish actor whose roles include Ross Poldark in the most recent BBC adaptation of Poldark and Kíli in The Hobbit film series
• 1965 Bob Dylan single from the album Bringing It All Back Home
• English actor whose films include Women in Love, Castaway and Gladiator
• Birds of the Old World family Coraciidae
• Sam ___, American actor best known for playing Sam Merlotte in True Blood
• Of an angle, lying between 90 and 180 degrees
• The sixth-largest city in Israel
• Muscular vessel that conveys oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body
• Industrial city in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, on the Danube