Jumbo General June 08, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 33 Across and 42 Across? Connection from #779 Tony Curtis, Buddy Rich and Nursie had the first name Bernard

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Crossword GK Jumbo 780 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 08, 2024

Across Clues

• Hawaiian boxer who beat England’s Terry Allen in 1950 become World flyweight champion
• Theodore ___, American poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book The Waking
• BBC sitcom written by Carla Lane that starred Felicity Kendal as Gemma Palmer
• English dramatist, poet and translator whose plays include Tamburlaine the Great and The Jew of Malta
• A domed or vaulted semicircular or polygonal recess, especially at the east end of a church
• Greek comic dramatist whose only complete extant comedy is Dyskolos
• Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
• See 31
• Judith Rossner’s last published novel
• Tree or shrub of the genus Salix
• A wealthy baronet in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play The Rivals
• 1996 Tony Scott film starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes
• 1959 film, based on the short story Rodolphe et le Revolver by Noel Calef, starring John Mills and his real life daughter Hayley in her first major film role
• Another name for the white poplar
• The largest reservoir in the United States in terms of water capacity
• Actor and director whose elder sister is Shirley MacLaine
• Author whose novels include At Risk and Present Danger
• Beetle regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine
• A small Old World rodent of the family Gliridae
• The part of the human body enclosed by the ribs
• English writer best known for his children’s book Swallows and Amazons
• Latin form of Hail Mary
• Stage name of Deborah Anne Dyer, lead vocalist of Skunk Anansie
• One-act play by Tennessee Williams that opened off Broadway in January 1958, as part of a double bill with Something Unspoken
• A multihulled sailing vessel found primarily in the Malay Archipelago and the South Pacific
• The large feline mammal Panthera pardus
• Anabolic steroid for which Petr Korda, Shoaib Akhtar and Linford Christie all tested positive

Down Clues

• Very fine soft wool from long-haired Asian goats
• Italian language opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart whose libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• Annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection
• 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey adapted into a film starring Burt Lancaster
• English comedian, actor and writer whose comedy partner is David Mitchell
• American singer, songwriter and musician who joined The Byrds in 1968 and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with fellow Byrd Chris Hillman in 1969
• 1986 book, derived from material from the unpublished diaries of Anaïs Nin, on which a 1990 film was based
• Substance also known as bleaching powder
• The plant Chrysanthemum parthenium, formerly used medicinally
• Song by Sir Noël Coward that originated in his 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet
• American basketball player drafted by the Orlando Magic with the first overall pick in the 1992 NBA Draft
• 2003 Christmas film starring Will Ferrell
• 1975 Top Ten hit for Frankie Valli
• 1930 Marx Brothers film in which Groucho Marx plays explorer Captain Spaulding
• Viktor ___, prime minister of Hungary from 2010
• See 13
• Trilogy of action films starring Liam Neeson, beginning in 2008
• Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959-60 under Hugh Gaitskell
• Birmingham-based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons founded in 1863
• Fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
• Isabella ___, actress daughter of Ingrid Bergman whose films include Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her
• The capital of Belgium
• State of Nigeria whose capital is Ibadan
• The government department in charge of finance
• Arab philosopher and physician whose medical work Qanun greatly influenced medieval medicine
• See 6
• In Greek mythology, a queen of Sparta who was the mother of Helen and Pollux by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan