Jumbo General October 29, 2022 Answers
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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 20 Across and 54 Across? Connection from #695 Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and Bette Davis have played Queen Elizabeth I in films
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Crossword GK Jumbo 696 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 29, 2022
Across Clues
- Author of the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- 2013 Guillermo del Toro film starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba and Rinko Kikuchi
- Stand-up comedian and actor who hosted the Academy Awards in 2005 and 2016
- Central character in a series of children’s stories by Angela Rippon
- English metaphysical poet appointed Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1621
- Copper alloy also known as paktong or alpacca
- First name of the lead singer of the Irish sibling group The Corrs
- English writer, journalist and pamphleteer best known for his novel Robinson Crusoe
- King of Mercia from 757 associated with an earthwork between England and Wales
- Irish county whose county town is Tullamore
- River in eastern Serbia that is a 129 km long right tributary of the Danube
- New Zealand striker who joined Newcastle United from Burnley in 2022
- English title of Le Roi se meurt, an absurdist drama by Eugene Ionesco that premiered in 1962
- The ___, 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger that features a skull rendered in anamorphic perspective
- First name of the German composer Gluck
- In the Old Testament, a priest of Shiloh who taught Samuel
- King of Wessex from 871 to 899, known as “the Great”
- Small ornamental bag, typically used to hold sewing articles
- Wealthy suburb in NE Athens that is the third-smallest municipality in Greece, after Nea Chalkidona and Ymittos
- Legendary Irish hero and bard of the 3rd century AD
- English actress who married Trevor Nunn in 1994
- Autobiographical manifesto by Adolf Hitler, published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926
- Any of a group of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of RNA
- Former Radio 1 DJ named Radio Broadcaster of the Year at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards in 2008
- Author of The Pilgrim’s Progress
- The bassist and primary lyricist of Black Sabbath
Down Clues
- American author whose first novel was Fear of Flying
- Actor born Michael Demitri Shalhoub in 1932
- Chimpanzee that was the first to be launched into orbit, in 1961
- 1969 John Sturges film starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and Gene Hackman, based on a novel by Martin Caidin
- A sand-burrowing bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae
- Author of the Gormenghast books
- Syrup derived from the dried rhizome and roots of a Brazilian plant that is used as an emetic
- A potent strain of cannabis originating in Mexico
- Unit of angular measure equal to one sixtieth of a degree
- Device in the carburettor of a petrol engine that enriches the petrol-air mixture by reducing the air supply
- The Inter-Cities ___ Cup was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971
- US Secretary of State in the Truman administration from 1949 to 1953
- Genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants or monkey cups
- Latin term meaning “Ten Men” which designates any such commission in the Roman Republic
- City in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, on the Po di Volano
- Local government district established in 2019 whose main towns include Aldeburgh, Felixstowe and Lowestoft
- 1882 play by Victorien Sardou that gave its name to a soft felt or velvet hat
- Widow of John Lennon
- A French-built anti-ship missile
- Charity that developed out of a pioneering alcohol project in South East London founded by Barry Richards in 1964
- American singer best known for the number one single When a Man Loves a Woman
- A medicinal preparation of hydrated magnesium sulphate
- In Britain, another name for hawthorn, cowslip or marsh marigold
- Type of establishment in which Charles Dickens’s novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood opens
- French word for “house”
- Island nation in Micronesia formerly known as Pleasant Island
- Former English name for the Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer and orator Cicero
- John ___, author best-known for for his first novel, Room at the Top
- Long-barrelled muzzle-loading shoulder gun used by infantry soldiers between the 16th and 18th centuries
- Restaurant whose signature dish is black cod with miso