Jumbo General July 09, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 1, 25 and 34 Across? Connection from #679 Michael Stich, John McEnroe and Boris Becker were born in West Germany

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Crossword GK Jumbo 680 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 09, 2022

Across Clues

• Unitary authority in East Sussex awarded city status in 2000
• A white ground of plaster and size used to prepare panels or canvas for painting
• Spanish form of the name James
• Subtitle of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor (Op. 113)
• Legendary queen consort of King Arthur who had an affair with Sir Lancelot
• Three-act play by John Millington Synge that provoked riots when it opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January 1907
• The capital of Latvia
• 1964 Italian film starring Vincent Price based upon Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend
• Large sea cucumber of tropical Oriental seas, also called bêche-de-mer
• Another name for the lapwing, imitative of its call
• Former royal burgh in Scotland granted city status in 2002
• English crime novelist whose works include The Four Just Men and Sanders of the River
• The dictator of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Jackie Wilson song that topped the UK singles chart 29 years after its first release
• Black country town represented in Parliament by Conservative MPs Nicola Richards and Shaun Bailey
• Amedeo ___, Italian count who gave his name to a law about the number of molecules in gases
• Planet whose moons include Titan and Rhea
• An officer ranking between a brigadier and a lieutenant colonel in land and air forces
• Best picture at the 1983 Oscars
• Brother of Jacob in the Old Testament who exchanged his birthright for some lentil stew
• A twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin
• Part of the body that includes the medulla oblongata and the pons
• ITV sitcom that starred Hywel Bennett in the title role
• See 16
• Jessica ___, 1994 Best Actress Oscar-winner for Blue Sky
• American actress who played fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday

Down Clues

• 1987 album by Michael Jackson
• A type of lettuce with crisp pale tightly-enfolded leaves
• Fairground game in which a player throws a ring over an object to try to win it
• The first teenage all-music show on British TV, beginning in 1958
• Curtly ___, West Indies fast bowler who took 405 wickets in 98 Tests
• Florida city famous for its International Speedway
• John Boyd ___, 1949 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Cartilaginous fish of the family Myliobatidae
• English name for the constellation Ursa Major
• Alan ___, striker who scored 30 goals in 63 appearances for England
• In architecture, a moulding with an S-shaped cross section
• A flowering plant of the genus Eriocaulon
• A special pack of cards used mainly for fortune-telling
• A native people of Rwanda and Burundi
• Long-running Scottish detective TV series that originally starred Mark McManus in the title role
• William ___, English artist whose works include A Rake’s Progress
• A provincial governor in ancient Persia
• Nickname of the Cretan-born artist Doménikos Theotokópoulos
• The roof of the mouth
• Motto of the Prince of Wales
• Wiltshire town associated with the carpet industry
• Amelia ___, aviation pioneer who went missing during a flight in 1937
• Russian and Polish soup based on beetroot
• Gold-coloured alloy of copper, tin, or zinc used for decoration
• Dandy who claimed to take five hours to dress, and recommended that boots be polished with champagne
• What the heroine of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita described as “getting the rhyme wrong”
• Gerry ___, former member of Stealers Wheel whose biggest solo hit was Baker Street
• The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
• A wingless bloodsucking insect of the order Anoplura
• The ___, Oscar-nominated 1935 John Ford film starring Victor McLaglen and Heather Angel
• 1984 American war film starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen
• The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
• Computer game created by Chris Pirih featured in the 2001 Best of Windows Entertainment Pack
• 1985 number one single by Midge Ure
• Barry ___, comedian and writer who hosted the ITV comedy panel game Joker’s Wild
• The first murder victim, according to the Old Testament
• 1975 Top Ten hit by Abba
• A preparation of pulses which have been stripped of their outer hulls and split in Asian cookery