Jumbo General July 03, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12, 30 and 44 Across? Connection from #627 Woolwich, Malta and Quebec are children of the Bagnets in Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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Crossword GK Jumbo 628 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 03, 2021

Across Clues

• Name adopted by the world featherweight boxing champions born William H Rothwell and Raffaele Giordano
• Any die, domino or any of four playing cards with one spot
• City in Mozambique, called João Belo until 1975, that is capital of Gaza Province
• John Lennon song chosen by Paul McCartney when he appeared on Desert Island Discs
• Greek historian known as ‘the Father of History’
• Lauren ___, American actress born Betty Joan Perske
• Actor who played Lt Martin Castillo in the TV series Miami Vice
• The second album by Joni Mitchell
• January to March at the University of Cambridge and the LSE, for example
• Best Picture at the 61st Academy Awards
• Knighted British diplomat, politician and author married to Vita Sackville-West
• Marie ___, English music-hall entertainer whose real name was Matilda Alice Victoria Wood
• Alan ___, British athlete who failed to clear any hurdles on his lap of honour following his victory in the 400m hurdles at the 1974 Commonwealth Games
• Second largest Australian city, capital of Victoria state
• Swiss city that is home to the International Red Cross
• Russian venue for the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Banker who used his vast fortune to control the Florentine political system in the 15th century
• Anti-tank weapon named after a musical instrument popularised in the 1930s by radio comedian Bob Burns
• American director, writer and producer whose films include Fried Green Tomatoes, Up Close & Personal and Red Corner
• Harry S ___ , 33rd President of the United States
• State of Germany whose capital is Stuttgart
• American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945
• City in Styria that is home to the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix
• American Major League Soccer club based in Ohio
• A haploid germ cell that fuses with another germ cell during fertilisation
• School of Buddhism that teaches that contemplation of one’s essential nature is the only way of achieving pure enlightenment
• Actor who played the title role in the 12-chapter film serial Tarzan the Fearless

Down Clues

• The eighth event in the decathlon
• Any books printed before 1501
• Greek hero who was killed by Paris, who wounded him in the heel
• Gallinaceous bird of the family Tetraonidae
• Spice Girl nicknamed Scary Spice
• In horse racing, a persistent horse
• Horse that won the 1999 Derby
• Horse that won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977
• The second book of the Old Testament
• Plant of the genus Mentha that has aromatic leaves
• Musical style that flourished in France and the Burgundian Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages
• US Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852, known as “Old Fuss and Feathers”
• The science or philosophy of law
• The state capital of Nebraska
• Informal term for a haughty or socially pretentious woman
• City in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, nicknamed ‘The Garden City’
• Horse that won back-to-back Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes in 1977 and 1978
• Ernest ___, Swiss conductor who founded the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in 1918
• A stone pillar with sides that taper towards a pyramidal top, often used as a monument in ancient Egypt
• Bird of the family Columbidae
• American jazz pianist whose best-known compositions include Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Honeysuckle Rose
• Another name for a depression in meteorology
• Member of a class of mainly aquatic arthropod animals with hard shells, such as crabs, shrimps and woodlice
• A mild, mottled green, semi-hard British cheese
• Body of water between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that was once one of the four largest lakes in the world
• American actor who played the title role in the 1984 film Amadeus
• See 32
• Richard Wagner’s third completed opera, subtitled der Letzte der Tribunen
• John ___, British composer and pianist who was director of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990
• A cocktail of gin or vodka and lime juice
• A wild goat with large backward-curving horns
• 1980 single that was Dexys Midnight Runners’ first UK number one
• British cosmetics retailer founded in 1995