Jumbo General November 05, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 34 Across and 50 Across? Connection from #696 John Donne, Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan were all imprisoned

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Crossword GK Jumbo 697 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 05, 2022

Across Clues

• 1997 American animated film featuring the voice of Meg Ryan in the title role
• Backing band of guitarist and singer Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Russian name traditionally given to girls born around Christmas
• Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for The Year of Living Dangerously
• Michael Jackson’s first number one single in the US as a solo artist
• J G, Chinese-born British author whose novels include Crash and Empire of the Sun
• 2005 number one single by James Blunt
• Italian city that became the base of Italian High Command during WWI
• Author best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient
• Woodwind instrument used chiefly in baroque music
• The European Falco tinnunculus, for example
• Schoolgirl who won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with All Kinds of Everything
• A metonym for the United States Congress
• The first Derby winner ridden by Lester Piggott, in 1954
• In the Old Testament, the first man, created by God
• A body of permeable rock able to hold or transmit water
• Egypt’s chief port
• American author of the novels Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre
• A thin stick used by the conductor of an orchestra
• Small market town and civil parish in NW Leicestershire
• The Northern and Southern Lights
• A diving bird of the family Alcidae
• The last person to rule Egypt as a pharaoh
• Bertrand ___, British philosopher and mathematician who was awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1950
• Historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled A Tale of the Last Century
• Gentleman of Orsino in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Down Clues

• In the Old Testament, the second son of Judah, killed by God for spilling his seed on the ground
• Kent port in which Vincent Van Gogh lived and worked in 1876
• Captain Jean-Luc ___, Star Trek character played by Patrick Stewart
• US actor whose films include Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity
• Pop group that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest
• A simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces on two sides
• In Greek mythology, a nymph who became a fountain on the island of Ortygia in Sicily
• Indian city formerly known as Bombay
• An embryonic plant in the act of germination
• A celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
• US TV series that starred Calista Flockhart in the title role
• A wife-murdering villain in European folk tales
• ___ Bell, pen name of Emily Brontë
• See 46
• Another name for a neurone
• British national newspaper launched by Eddy Shah in 1986
• A Hawaiian word for hello or goodbye
• A village in Nigeria where a serious viral disease characterised by high fever and muscular pains was first identified
• Writer and performer of comic songs who was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and The Rutles
• Metrical feet consisting of two syllables, a short one followed by a long one
• 1976 film written, directed and produced by David Lynch
• Dennis ___, American actor who played Norman Buntz in Hill Street Blues and Andy Sipowicz in NYPD Blue
• American comedian and actor born Aaron Chwatt in 1919
• A cleansing agent, especially a surface-active chemical such as an alkyl sulphonate
• ___ Dauger, pseudonym of the unidentified prisoner known as ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’
• Vehicles driven in the US National Championship since 1916
• Industrial town in South Yorkshire whose football team are nicknamed The Tykes
• Eastern city on Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Costermansville
• Justus von ___, German chemist after whom a laboratory condenser is named
• British swimmer who won the men’s 100m breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Olympics
• Pseudonym of illustrator Hablot Knight Browne
• Main character in Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series of video games