Jumbo General October 01, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11, 39 and 53 Across? Connection from #691 Numbat, echidna and pangolin are types of anteater

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Crossword GK Jumbo 692 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 01, 2022

Across Clues

• Actress who made her film debut in The Color Purple, for which she received an Oscar nomination
• Home of Rugby Union’s Scarlets
• Notorious reef off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, also called Inchcape
• English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor whose plays include Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair
• Stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains that is the second highest summit in Ecuador
• Nigerian author best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart
• Horse that won the Champion Hurdle in 1980 and 1981
• The heaviest surviving land animal in Europe, also known as the European bison
• Flattened cartilaginous fish of the order Torpediniformes
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ___, German philosopher whose works include The Phenomenology of Mind
• Rock group whose hit singles included All Right Now and Wishing Well
• Chess-playing computer developed by IBM that defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
• A cold dessert made in a mould with sponge fingers enclosing a mixture of whipped cream
• The southernmost province of Thailand
• American boxer who was WBA Light Heavyweight Champion 1987-91 and 1992-97
• English singer who was known as “Mr Moonlight”
• Taxonomic class that includes frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians
• King of Mercia from 757 associated with an earthwork roughly following some of the current border between England and Wales
• Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and elegiac poet, c. 638 BC-558 BC, who sought to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Athens
• English actor who played Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers series of comedy films
• 1938 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Former name for Ethiopia
• See 17
• In Greek mythology, a maiden who agreed to marry any man who could defeat her in a running race
• Drummer who was one of the founders of the rock group Spirit in 1967
• See 14
• A mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematician Euclid
• Actress and singer who played Dominique Deveraux in the soap opera Dynasty

Down Clues

• 1996 top ten hit for Ash
• French city that is the préfecture of the Var département
• Surname shared by The Bee Gees
• The dogwood genus of plants
• Poem by John Keats that begins “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness!”
• The Asian rodent Maxomys surifer
• Deep Purple’s highest charting UK single
• English rock and roll singer born Reginald Leonard Smith
• Any of several inflammatory diseases of the skin caused by a virus
• Scottish sailor who inspired Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe
• Character voiced by Robin Williams in the 1992 Disney version of Aladdin
• Legendary British city in Arthurian legends that is the home of Elaine
• The first queen consort of Edward I of England
• Spanish word for “hope” used as a name for cities in Argentina, Mexico and Peru
• East Anglian tribe led by Queen Boudicca
• Another name for Childermas, celebrated on December 28
• Town and comune in the province of Rome that is home to Italy’s busiest airport
• African country whose capital is Accra
• The most northwesterly of the Canary Islands
• Musical by Meredith Willson whose songs include Seventy-six Trombones and Till There Was You
• 1981 top ten hit for Shakin’ Stevens
• City that is home to Chile’s National Congress
• Daughter of Herodias who called for the head of John the Baptist
• The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction
• French city that is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy
• The capital of Zimbabwe
• Britain’s pre-eminent pedal steel guitarist, heard on songs such as on Elton John’s Tiny Dancer and Andy Fairweather Low’s Wide Eyed and Legless
• The basic unit of currency in China