Jumbo General October 08, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15, 36 and 54 Across? Connection from #692 Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York and Diahann Carroll were born with the surname Johnson

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Crossword GK Jumbo 693 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 08, 2022

Across Clues

• Song by Damien Rice released as the second single from his debut album O
• Italian cyclist who won the Giro d’Italia five times and the Tour de France twice
• The capital of Syria
• The capital of Bulgaria
• The capital of Serbia
• 1964 debut single by The Zombies that also gave Santana a hit 13 years later
• The largest reservoir made by a game and fish commission in the United States
• Name by which Brazilian 1994 FIFA World Cup winner José Roberto Gama de Oliveira is known
• Bucks Fizz song that won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest
• Substance that gives vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell
• Small tropical American tree, Bixa orellana, whose pulpy seeds yield the food colouring E160b
• Tibetan name for the abominable snowman
• Actor who played the title role in the 1968 film Inspector Clouseau
• Goddess of wisdom, strategic war and weaving in Greek mythology
• Acute infectious disease caused by the microorganism Bartonella quintana and transmitted by body lice
• Book size resulting from folding a sheet of paper to form eight leaves
• The capital of Austria
• Opponents of the Roundheads in the English Civil War
• See 58
• The largest city of Sri Lanka
• Scottish comedian who played the headmaster in the film Gregory’s Girl
• Hamlet’s last words in Shakespeare’s play
• The capital of the Czech Republic
• The major seaport of northwestern Ecuador
• Noble family and royal dynasty of electors, kings and emperors of Prussia, Germany and Romania that has the motto Nihil Sine Deo
• The capital of Hungary
• See 32
• A mental disorder involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations
• 1978 single by Abba that spent three weeks at number 1 in the UK
• 1952 novel by John Steinbeck featuring the Trasks and the Hamiltons

Down Clues

• In Greek mythology, a maiden changed into a spider for having challenged Athena to a weaving contest
• ITV drama series starring Anton Rodgers as a country vet
• Italian philosopher and writer best known for The Prince
• In financial accounting, an economic resource owned by a company
• The forest antelope Tragelaphus imberbis, found in East Africa
• Number of red balls on a snooker table
• Nicholas ___, 16th-century English playwright who wrote Ralph Roister Doister
• Capital city of a province of the same name in NW Saudi Arabia
• 1932 comic novel by Stella Gibbons
• In golf, an estimated standard score for a hole or course that a good player should make
• The letter I in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• French city that was formerly the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine
• Country whose capital is Tallinn
• See 4
• The letter Y in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Blue pigment obtained by powdering lapis lazuli
• Skin condition also called hives and nettle rash
• Climbing plant with bitter-tasting fruit, also known as bitter apple, bitter cucumber, egusi or vine of Sodom
• Peruvian-born author who wrote a series of books describing his purported training in shamanism
• The title character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
• Country whose capital is Asmara
• The smaller and outermost of Mars’ two natural satellites
• Town in Lincolnshire for whose football team cricketer Ian Botham played
• The nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built in a high inaccessible place
• French city with a ferry link to Portsmouth
• John ___, Conservative MP best known for his involvement in a 1963 scandal over his relationship with showgirl Christine Keeler
• Country whose capital is Kyiv
• Robot Wars house robot with a rear ramming plough, a front lifting scoop and a titanium-tipped axe
• Language spoken in Suriname, Curaçao and Aruba
• Marat ___, Russian tennis player who won the 2000 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open
• King of Assyria who was the husband of Semiramis
• Kent village two miles south of Maidstone famed for comical references to its Women’s Institute
• See 3