Jumbo General April 23, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13, 28 and 47 Across? Connection from #668 Peter Lawford, Fred Astaire and Judy Garland star in the 1948 film Easter Parade

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Crossword GK Jumbo 669 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 23, 2022

Across Clues

• The period of human history that began in the Middle East about 1100 BC
• Large fast-running flightless bird inhabiting the open plains of South America
• Hanna-Barbera cartoon character watched over by zookeeper Mr Twiddle
• A quadrille for eight or sixteen couples
• A person whose hobby is the exploration and study of caves
• US state whose capital is Boise
• American actress, comedian and writer whose films include Elf and Strangers with Candy
• Best Director Oscar-winner for Reds
• See 59
• TV presenter who won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
• English actress and writer who created the sitcom Fleabag
• Actress whose films include Halloween, Trading Places and A Fish Called Wanda
• A violet-blue dye obtained from leaves, woad, or produced synthetically
• The sole member of the “Big Five” film studios still located in the city limits of Los Angeles
• Grey mineral that is the chief source of lead
• The most westerly lake in the Lake District National Park
• City in Texas, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
• Oscar-winning 1978 film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino
• Independent British classical music label whose founder, Ted Perry, was voted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2012
• See 28
• English guitarist and songwriter who was a founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company
• A chaplain to the armed forces
• A tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
• English football team nicknamed ‘the Toffees’
• 1801 oratorio by Joseph Haydn
• The capital of Switzerland
• Former West Indian fast bowler with a Test average of 20.94

Down Clues

• English comedian and actor who often appeared with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt
• American singer best known for his 1972 hit I Can See Clearly Now
• Flower-head consisting of individual flowers attached to a main unbranched stem by means of short stalks
• Czech composer whose works include the operas Jenufa and The Cunning Little Vixen
• First name of Elvis Presley’s wife
• The teenage high school student whose alter ego is Spider-Man
• Rock band founded in London in 1989 as Seymour
• See 44
• 1945 children’s novel by E B White about a talking mouse
• Animated cartoon dog created by Tex Avery in 1943
• Chief language of the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli
• French port at the head of the Loire estuary that was the scene of the Noyades during the French Revolution
• The capital of Eritrea
• Derby-winning horse stolen from the Ballymany Stud by masked gunmen in 1983
• The greatest of the 12 peers in attendance on Charlemagne
• Ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge and writing
• Former state of NW India that became part of Rajasthan in 1947
• The heaviest surviving land animal in Europe, also known as the European bison
• The capital of Lesotho
• BBC sitcom created, written and co-produced by Victoria Wood
• Pen name of William Sidney Porter
• The capital of Croatia
• Actor who played Sanjay Kapoor in EastEnders
• In Greek mythology, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
• Rock band fronted by Gary Lightbody
• American singer and actress whose first number one was Genie in a Bottle in 1999
• 1972 UK No 1 for the Simon Park Orchestra used as the theme for the ITV series Van der Valk
• A large destructive sea wave produced by a submarine earthquake, subsidence or volcanic eruption
• Large deer whose antlers are used to make health supplements for dogs
• New town on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire
• In anatomy, any small circular area, such as the pigmented ring around a nipple
• Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red Sea
• Form of dark matter that is integral to the plot of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy of novels