Jumbo General August 10, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17 Across, 30 Across and 54 Across? Connection from #788 Stereophonics, The Clash and The Sex Pistols are all bands with guitarists called Jones (Kelly, Mick and Steve)

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Crossword GK Jumbo 789 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 10, 2024

Across Clues

• English actress seen as Little Mo Mitchell in EastEnders and Cathy Keating in Grantchester
• A type of neologism that provides a new name for an object or concept to differentiate it from a more recent form or version
• A circular temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods, used since 609 AD as a Christian church
• Dance originating in Brazil exemplified by the 1964 Getz/Gilberto single The Girl From Ipanema
• The capital of Greenland, whose Danish name is Godthab
• English actor and novelist whose films include Doctor in the House and Death in Venice
• American composer and songwriter whose songs include Night and Day, I Get a Kick out of You and I’ve Got You Under My Skin
• A construction that takes the thrust of an arch or vault or supports the end of a bridge
• 1973 play by Peter Shaffer
• Japanese video game corporation founded as a card company in 1889
• The condition of excreting potassium in urine
• British author and screenwriter whose TV adaptations include Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House and Little Dorrit
• Roman name for Chester
• English stand-up comedian who found chart success with the single ‘Ullo John! Gotta New Motor?
• Mountainous Italian island that was Napoleon’s first place of exile
• British soul group whose song You to Me Are Everything reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1976
• 1985 Martin Scorsese film starring Griffin Dunne
• Genus of rays that includes the spot-on-spot round ray and the yellow stingray
• Evergreen tree with edible shiny black fruits
• Chile’s second oldest city after Santiago
• The most populous British city outside London
• Another name for the yucca plant
• A metrical foot used in various types of poetry
• An essential part in a musical score
• The capital of Chad
• British retail clothing company founded by Ray Kelvin in Glasgow in 1988
• English sculptor and printmaker made a DBE in 1982 and a Companion of Honour in 1992

Down Clues

• County known as ‘the garden of England’
• Former Labour Cabinet member nicknamed “the Iron Chipmunk” by Fraser Nelson, writing in The Spectator
• See 7
• Greek god of love whose Roman counterpart was Cupid
• 1988 film for which Jodie Foster won a Best Actress Oscar
• The most populous of New York City’s five boroughs
• Frank Capra film that won Best Picture at the 1934 Oscars
• 1966 film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, based on a book of the same name by Joy Adamson
• American seven-time Olympic medallist (two gold, four silver, one bronze) who is a former world record holder in the women’s 200m breaststroke
• Max ___, German sociologist and political economist whose works include The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• 1957 US number one single by Sam Cooke
• A dog trained to find and fetch game that has been shot
• 1980 play by Willy Russell set in the office of an Open University lecturer
• English city whose administrative centre is Chelmsford
• The largest coastal city in Croatia
• Israel’s southernmost city
• Russian city formerly known as Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad
• Impure form of quartz used in making pestles and mortars
• Former England winger who played for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton and Burnley in the Premier League
• 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan
• A wind of force 12 or more on the Beaufort scale
• 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement
• English heavy metal band whose mascot, Eddie, has appeared on almost all of their album and single covers
• 1963 single by The Ronettes that reached number 2 in the US and number 4 in the UK
• Franz ___, Austrian composer who was buried next to Beethoven, at whose funeral he had been a torchbearer
• Character in love with Hermia in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• A Hawaiian word for hello or goodbye
• The largest continent
• The fourth planet from the sun