Jumbo General August 27, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 30 and 56 Across? Connection from #686 Chubby Checker, George Eliot and The Edge had the surname Evans

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Crossword GK Jumbo 687 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 27, 2022

Across Clues

• Coronation anthem by Handel on which the UEFA Champions League Anthem is based
• 1947 novella by John Steinbeck whose central character is called Kino
• Correctional facility in New York at which a riot in 1971 resulted in 39 deaths
• TV programme, 1960-73 and 1987-89, whose presenters were James Cameron, Brian Inglis and Bernard Braden
• Part of a cuttlefish from which sepia is obtained
• Technical term for problem (or compulsive)gambling
• Actor in Dad’s Army who wrote the play The Ghost Train
• 1924 film starring Buster Keaton as Rollo Treadway
• Hungarian-born American paediatrician who devised a test for susceptibility to diphtheria
• Edge inscription on £1 coins meaning “An ornament and a safeguard”
• 1987 John Badham film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez
• First of a series of novels by H E Bates featuring the Larkin family
• The first grey horse to win the Derby
• 1964 Richard Lester film featuring The Beatles
• 1965 hit single by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
• Former name for Bangladesh
• See 22
• A highly seasoned sausage used especially on pizza
• 1974 David Essex hit single that was his only US chart success
• Author of the novel Gone with the Wind
• A musical composition such as Beethoven’s Waldstein, Appassionata or Hammerklavier
• Irish political party whose name translates as “we ourselves”
• Play by Noël Coward written in 1939 but not staged until 1942

Down Clues

• American actor born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez in 1940
• The ___, nickname shared by Bristol City, Swindon Town and Cheltenham Town
• Sicilian volcano that is the highest in Europe
• Horse that won the 1968 Grand National
• Jacques ___, Belgian singer-songwriter who has sold over 25 million records worldwide
• Country whose capital is Lima
• Song by Jay-Z and Kanye West that won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 2012
• Officers assigned to advise commanders in the planning and execution of military operations
• Fortified French town on the Meuse that was the scene of the longest and most severe battle of World War I
• Region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient Dál Riata on Great Britain
• Heteromeles arbutifolia, a common perennial shrub native to California and the extreme northwest of Mexico
• Term used on French wine labels to denote wine of a specific blend or batch
• See 27
• In the New Testament, the first person to witness the resurrection of Jesus
• In Greek mythology, the Titan who supported the heavens on his shoulders
• Swiss city named after the new castle Rudolf III of Burgundy presented to his wife Irmengarde in 1011
• Group of African languages that includes most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope
• Another name for red blood corpuscles or erythrocytes
• A sudden violent or illegal seizure of government
• British boxer nicknamed the “Fen Tiger” who lost WBC welterweight title fights against Carlos Palomino and Sugar Ray Leonard
• 2006 FIFA World Cup winners
• Welsh actress who played Livia in the 1976 BBC adaptation of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius
• In Roman tradition, the queen of the Olympian gods
• Oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Edward Elgar first performed in 1903
• Former name of Shropshire, from 1974 to 1980
• 1979 hit single for the French band Ottawan
• Davor ___, Croatian striker who won the Golden Boot at the 1998 World Cup
• Style of printing type with the letters slanting to the right
• 1985 Ridley Scott fantasy film starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara and Tim Curry
• A unit of measurement used in printing equal to one twelfth of a pica, or approximately 0.01384 inch
• A small yellow finch noted for its singing
• Scombridoid marine food fish of the genus Thunnus
• In the Old Testament, the first son of Adam and Eve
• In Greek mythology, a nymph spurned by Narcissus who pined away until only her voice remained
• The largest island of the Inner Hebrides