Jumbo General August 24, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14, 32 and 51 Across? Connection from #790 Yasser Arafat, Abraham Lincoln and Charlie Chaplin were all exhumed

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Crossword GK Jumbo 791 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 24, 2024

Across Clues

• A million millionth of a second
• Musical instrument that is played by the wind
• Woolworths heiress whose seven husbands included German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm
• Traditional bat-and-ball game on which baseball is based
• American actor, comedian and director seen as Maxwell Smart in the sitcom Get Smart
• Evelyn Waugh novel first published in 1928
• Constellation whose brightest star is Altair
• 2005 TV miniseries starring Helen Mirren in the title role
• House elf owned by the Malfoy family in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter stories
• The US term for legal actions known as affiliation proceedings in the UK
• A type of mechanical piano also called a player piano
• Primary villain in the Robin Hood stories
• Paris-born American actress whose films include Pretty Baby and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
• The Lithuanian name for Lithuania
• German-born physicist awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1921
• Tin-glazed earthenware made in a town in the Netherlands since the 17th century
• Economic theory associated with Milton Friedman
• Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Derby in 1975
• 1885 march by F W Meacham arranged for Glenn Miller’s swing band by Jerry Gray in 1941
• A purple variety of sapphire
• The first British ESA astronaut
• Trinidadian British actor best known for playing Philip Smith in Rising Damp and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in Death in Paradise
• The Rolling Stones’ first British single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, which became the band’s third UK number one
• American actress, director and screenwriter born Samille Diane Friesen in 1937

Down Clues

• Spanish port on the Bay of Biscay, famous since medieval times for the production of iron and steel goods
• Crystal silicate mineral, the most common species of which is schorl
• A large vein that conveys oxygen-depleted blood to the heart
• The capital of Qatar
• US critic, noted especially for Axel’s Castle, a study of the symbolist movement
• The preservative E270
• American comedienne and TV personality who was one of only four Americans invited to the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005
• State capital of South Dakota
• In J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the great river, east of the Misty Mountains, on whose west bank is the Elvish land of Lothlorien
• In North America, the principal unmarried attendant of a bride
• Another name for a helix
• The plant Ipomoea batatas of tropical America, cultivated for its edible fleshy yellow root
• A square dance of five or more figures for four or more couples
• See 6
• An abnormally low body temperature
• The common European thrush Turdus merula
• The tree Ficus benghalensis, of tropical India and the East Indies, that has aerial roots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
• Any congenital growth or pigmented blemish on the skin
• Series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts, the first in the series being released in 1994
• A table game in pubs played with short cues
• Group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest
• Egypt’s chief port
• The court jester of Duke Frederick in Shakespeare’s play As You Like It
• Town in Spain whose destruction 1937 by German bombers during the Spanish Civil War was depicted in one of Picasso’s most famous paintings
• Each of two parts into which a thing is or can be divided
• Clothing item named from being worn by Croats in the French army during the Thirty Years’ War
• Italian word for ‘nothing’
• French city that was the ancient capital of Brittany
• Brazilian football club for which Pelé holds the appearance record, having played 1106 first-team matches from 1956 to 1974
• Quantity of sheets of paper equal to 20 quires