Jumbo General October 12, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 20 Across, 39 Across and 51 Across? Connection from #797 Myron, Duluth and Lincoln are novels by Gore Vidal

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Crossword GK Jumbo 798 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 12, 2024

Across Clues

• English inventor who founded the toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908
• An atom or group of atoms containing at least one unpaired electron and existing for a brief period of time before reacting to produce a stable molecule
• A mature female elephant, whale or seal
• Francis ___, French painter and poet associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements
• Billie ___, singer and actress who played Rose Tyler in the TV series Doctor Who
• Small duck such as Anas crecca
• Form of American music that evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century
• American heavyweight boxer who won gold at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul
• Widely-cultivated Asian plant whose bulb is made up of small segments known as cloves
• 1949 Ealing comedy based on a novel of the same name by Compton MacKenzie
• Rotterdam-based football club who won the European Cup in 1970
• A semi-synthetic fibre manufactured from regenerated cellulose
• An appendage on seeds such as those of the yew and nutmeg
• 1978 film starring Richard Burton as a priest who teaches at a boys’ school
• Original name for the Ivor Novello song republished as Keep the Home-Fires Burning
• Area of North Bristol with a bohemian reputation
• Annual malvaceous plant, Hibiscus esculentus, also called ladies’ fingers
• Kate & ___, US sitcom that starred Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin
• European umbelliferous plant whose leaves are known as cilantro in American culinary usage
• Dorchester in the novels of Thomas Hardy
• A style of solo opera singing between recitative and aria
• Knighted character in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
• Diurnal fish-eating bird of prey sometimes called a sea hawk
• Villainous ensign in Shakespeare’s Othello
• Tree also known as the trembling poplar
• The administrative centre of Norfolk
• Vegetable whose varieties include Early Perfection and Kelvedon Wonder
• A collective bet in which the stake and winnings on each successive event are carried forward to the next
• Australian river sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributaries

Down Clues

• Former member of Marine Girls who became one half of Everything but the Girl
• 1924 composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band
• 1958 book by Frederic W Farrar subtitled Little by Little
• Novel by Henry Miller first published in 1934
• American TV quiz show in which contestants are presented with answers and must phrase their responses in question form
• The aromatic plant Artemisia dracunculus, whose leaves are used as seasoning
• Michael ___, English filmmaker whose works include Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo and the TV series The Trip
• Album by Antony and the Johnsons that won the Mercury Music Prize in 2005
• US state whose capital is Trenton
• Irish-bred racehorse that won the 1999 Grand National
• The only Chinese-language film to win the Cannes Palme d’Or
• The standard monetary unit of Iran
• Presenter of the quiz show Ask the Family from 1967 to 1984
• Fictional hallucinogenic drug in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World
• The fourth largest investment bank in the USA before declaring bankruptcy in 2008
• Language also known as Siamese
• UEFA trophy won by Newcastle United in 2006
• A book that indexes the principal words in a literary work
• British TV presenter, actor, writer and director seen as Leo Jones in Doctor Who
• Ribbed material commonly used by artists for charcoal drawings
• In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife
• The fourth and last compartment of the stomach of ruminants
• Cambodian photojournalist portrayed by Haing S Ngor in the 1984 film The Killing Fields
• Italian town after which a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea is named
• IsiZulu word for any armed body of men, used in English to refer to a Zulu regiment