Jumbo General October 19, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 28 Across and 36 Across? Connection from #798 Garlic, coriander and pea have sativum in their Latin name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 799 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 19, 2024

Across Clues

• 1850 novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement
• 1959 British film based on a novel of the same name by John Braine
• 1965 American Civil War film starring James Stewart, Doug McClure and Katherine Ross
• English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, 1937-57, with a batting average of 50.06
• Michael ___, British playwright best known for Noises Off
• In law, the threat of attack to another person followed by actual attack
• Form of American music that evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century
• Former subpostmaster played by Toby Jones in a 2024 ITV series
• 1990 sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown, directed by and starring Jack Nicholson
• Addictive narcotic drug derived from the leaves of an Andean shrub
• Basketball player for whom Nike created a signature shoe
• Sea in N Europe, connected with the North Sea by the Skaggerak, Kattegat and Oresund
• In fencing, a call to adopt a defensive stance in readiness for an attack or bout
• Constellation between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way
• Women’s individual pursuit champion at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
• Genus of cacti that includes the prickly pear
• The capital of South Dakota
• ITV drama series originally conceived as a vehicle for Nick Berry in 1992
• A papal ambassador to a foreign government or court
• Former Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur footballer who won 109 caps for the Netherlands between 2001 and 2013
• See 25
• Noël Coward play featuring the character Madame Arcati
• Brazilian-born Spanish international striker who was at Chelsea between 2014 and 2017
• Pierre ___, author of the plays Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro and La Mère coupable
• Mother-in-law (eventually) of Fred Vincy in George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch

Down Clues

• Robert J ___, American filmmaker who directed and produced the 1922 documentary film Nanook of the North
• American singer best known for his 1972 hit I Can See Clearly Now
• City in Michigan that was the birthplace of General Motors
• 1980 single by Motörhead that spent 12 weeks in the UK Singles Chart
• In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife
• Canadian darts player nicknamed Darth Maple
• Bug of the family Miridae, most of which feed on plant tissues, causing damage to crops
• Italian word for eight
• A senior Byzantine court title that was bestowed on the sons or sons-in-law of reigning emperors
• Song from the musical Annie originally written as Replay (The Way We Live Now) for the 1970 short film Replay
• House near Ambleside in the Lake District that was the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 until his death in 1850
• Jockey who rode Generous to victory in the 1991 Derby
• Actor who played the title role in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek
• Canadian singer-songwriter and painter born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943
• The legendary sword of King Arthur
• The capital of Romania
• ___ Sharks, rugby team who now play their matches in Salford
• Paul ___, actor best known for the TV sitcoms The Good Life, Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
• A heavy section of trimmed tree trunk thrown in competition at Highland games
• Princess in Greek mythology chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster and saved from death by Perseus
• Bob Marley’s middle name
• See 2
• Spirit whose name is German for “noisy ghost”
• One of the founders of Vermont, and leaders of the Green Mountain Boys, with his brother Ethan
• In England and Wales until 1974, one of the senior members of a local council, elected by other councillors
• 2010 ITV drama series starring Keeley Hawes as DSI Martha Lawson
• Ancient Greek town that overlooked the naval battle in 31 BC at which Octavian’s fleet under Agrippa defeated that of Mark Antony and Cleopatra
• A domesticated South American cud-chewing mammal closely related to the llama
• Tax formerly levied on property by a local authority in the UK
• A name of God in the Old Testament
• See 12
• In the Old Testament, son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright
• Norfolk market town close to the border with Suffolk