Jumbo General August 06, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13, 20 and 37 Across? Connection from #683 Ben Kingsley, Bill Kenwright and Arthur Lowe appeared in Coronation Street

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Crossword GK Jumbo 684 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 06, 2022

Across Clues

• Welsh composer, singer and actor who wrote Keep the Home Fires Burning
• Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
• English name for the 1890 Norwegian novel Sult by Knut Hamsun
• 1516 book by Sir Thomas More
• Snowman in the 2013 Disney film Frozen voiced by Josh Gad
• Piece of medical equipment used for measuring human height
• 14th-century Italian scholar and poet called the “Father of Humanism”
• Salman Rushdie’s third novel, published in 1983
• Steatornis caripensis, also called a guacharo
• American jazz singer whose hits in the 1950s included Wheel of Fortune and The Rock And Roll Waltz
• British socialist movement whose members included George Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Edith Nesbit and Virginia Woolf
• See 55
• French culinary term meaning with sauce produced with the natural juices that were produced during cooking
• Communications code word for the letter R
• George ___, English mathematician and philosopher who invented the logic which is the basis of modern computing
• Charles Dickens novel featuring Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby
• Mad ___, a wild young officer in the Music Hall dramatic monologue The Green Eye of the Yellow God by J Milton Hayes
• Character played by David Boreanaz in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a spin-off series
• Daniel ___, the author of Robinson Crusoe
• Ancient Roman goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of springtime
• Roman Catholic feast celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday
• Apostle chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot
• Port town and seaside resort in East Devon comprising the parishes of Littleham and Withycombe Raleigh
• Tropical plant of the genus Cassia with yellow flowers and long pods
• 1990 film starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci
• Women’s 800 metres champion at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
• Former Beatle murdered in December 1980
• 1935 Marx Brothers film that was the first without Zeppo
• Double reed woodwind instrument of the family formerly called a hautbois
• Drugs, such as propranolol, that inhibits the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline

Down Clues

• Character in the sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo! played by Vicki Michelle
• Don ___, central character in the TV series Mad Men, played by Jon Hamm
• US state whose capital is Des Moines
• Welsh song and military march describing events during a siege between 1461 and 1468
• Middle name of US inventor Thomas Edison
• Nickname of heavyweight boxing champion James J Corbett
• Jerry Hall’s favourite Rolling Stones song
• US State nicknamed the Buckeye State
• Biblical place in the wilderness of Judah, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, whose vineyards were celebrated in Solomon’s time
• River on which Peterborough stands
• Best Actress Oscar-winner for Funny Girl
• Co-star of 17 in What’s Up, Doc? and The Main Event
• The capital of Bulgaria
• Scarlet resinous secretion of a number of species of insects of the superfamily Coccoidea
• 1962 Blake Edwards film starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick
• The fifth note or dominant of any scale
• Patchwork elephant in children’s stories by David McKee
• City in Kent at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway
• London Underground station that, until its closure in 1994, held the distinction of being the furthest from Central London
• Formerly, a place of instruction where young offenders were sent for corrective training
• The 1988 feature film debut of director Mike Figgis, starring Sean Bean, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting and Melanie Griffith
• A solid figure with ten plane faces
• Monetary unit of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan worth one hundredth of a rupee
• The lunar deity in Pawnee mythology
• The first Prime Minister of Burma
• The art of training horses and riders
• A traditional herbal remedy for bruises
• Small island in the Inner Hebrides on which St Columba founded a monastery in 563
• City in the northeast of France, capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department
• General Motors’ largest European brand
• Opera by Alban Berg based on two plays by Frank Wedekind