Jumbo General September 28, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 19 Across, 23 Across and 44 Across? Connection from #795 Great Expectations, Ribcage and Powder Blue are songs by Elbow

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Crossword GK Jumbo 796 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 28, 2024

Across Clues

• 1927 German expressionist film directed by Fritz Lang
• Singer and actor who married Nancy Barbato, Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow
• BBC TV drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980
• Harold ___, 1924 Olympic 100m champion depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire
• 1999 American teen romantic comedy starring Heath Ledger, loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
• ‘The Explosive Blonde’ in the first of 10 films starring Ann Sothern, based on the 1935 novel Dark Dame by Wilson Collison
• English county that was abolished in 1996
• A young unfledged pigeon
• Plant from which opium is obtained
• Jaroslav ___, Czech novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Good Soldier Schweik
• Dutch violinist and conductor noted for his January 1 concerts with the Johann Strauss Orchestra
• 1980 hit single by Roxy Music, subtitled There’s a Band Playing On the Radio
• Country whose capital is Reykjavik
• Poet and playwright whose works include The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral
• England Men’s Test cricket captain from 2017 to 2022
• Commercial and industrial city in northwestern Germany with a major port on the River Weser
• Genus of plants that includes the spurges and poinsettia
• 1984 musical, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
• The former English name for the Roman consul, orator and writer Cicero
• American hickory tree with edible nuts
• A member of a South American Indian people whose empire centred on Peru
• 1974 David Essex hit single that was his only US chart success
• Country whose capital is Bangui
• Japanese video game corporation founded as a card company in 1889
• Colourless corrosive liquid whose formula is H₂SO₄
• Book of the Old Testament traditionally ascribed to the prophet Jeremiah
• Country whose capital is Wellington

Down Clues

• County known as “The Garden of England”
• Department of France whose capital is Mezieres
• Slovenian town that hosted the World Rowing Championships for the fourth time in 2011
• American sports channel owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications
• Play by Victoria Wood first performed in 1978
• Ukrainian figure skater who was the 1994 Olympic ladies Champion
• Character from French pantomime with a whitened face, white costume and pointed hat
• Philistine city-state that was home to Goliath
• An alloy of copper and zinc used as imitation gold
• A feather or plastic attachment fitted to a dart to give it stability in the air
• Communications code word for the letter R
• 1996 Suede song that is their biggest selling single
• A spiral-horned African antelope
• The distinctive fleshy wattle that hangs from the top of the beak of the male turkey
• The main vocalist and songwriter of Radiohead
• The capital of Ecuador
• Greek philosopher who founded the Academy in Athens
• British fashion retailer founded by Tom Singh in Taunton in 1969
• The extinct flightless bird Raphus cucullatus
• 1975 horror fiction novel by Stephen King, originally entitled Second Coming
• Island on which Prince Philip was born
• 1880 novel by Émile Zola, the ninth instalment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series
• A dark reddish-brown pigment obtained from the inky secretion of the cuttlefish
• French tennis player who was nicknamed “the Crocodile”
• West African republic whose capital is Porto Novo
• A communal meal in the early Christian church commemorating the Last Supper
• Any cell that is suspended in a fluid, such as erythrocytes and leucocytes
• A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium
• The most successful Chilean football club, based in Macul, Santiago
• Sobriquet of Erik Lehnsherr, played by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in the X-Men film series
• Comic character, created and performed by Spike Milligan in The Goon Show
• Genus of shrubs that includes the heaths and some heathers
• Port in Russia, on the River Don, 30 miles from the Sea of Azov
• River on which Middlesbrough stands
• First name of the protagonist of the animated TV series King of the Hill
• Arthur ___, the first manager to lead Tottenham Hotspur to the First Division Championship title
• Schoolgirl who won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with All Kinds of Everything