Jumbo General December 24, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10 Across, 40 Across and 54 Across? Connection from #702 Ron Moody, Stelios Haji-Ioannou and Mick Jagger attended the London School of Economics

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Crossword GK Jumbo 704 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 24, 2022

Across Clues

• A female fox
• Gemstone associated with Coober Pedy, Australia
• Celia __, British actress who played Marianne Bellshade in “26 Down”
• A port and resort in Emilia-Romagna on Italy’s Adriatic coast
• See 17
• English actor, comedian and broadcaster best known for playing Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd
• Province of Canada to the south of Nunavut
• Canadian city that is the capital of “18 Across”
• Former name for Tuvalu
• Name of Captain Hook’s right-hand man in Peter Pan
• The scrophulariaceous plant Verbascum thapsus
• Sitcom written by Carla Lane that featured the Boswell family
• Communications code word for the letter E
• 1945 Leo McCarey film starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
• African country whose capital is Kampala
• A string with a metal weight at one end used to determine verticality, depth of water, etc
• The capital of Turkey
• Novel by Charles Dickens that begins on Christmas Eve, 1812
• 1946 Frank Capra film starring James Stewart as George Bailey
• The world’s first commercial jet airliner to reach production, made by de Havilland
• A colour print made using the silk-screen process
• Minor prophet in the Old Testament who had been a sheep herder and sycamore fig farmer
• See 38
• Irish-Australian bushranger hanged for murder at Old Melbourne Gaol in 1880
• Michael ___, Sri Lankan-born Canadian writer whose works include the Booker-prizewinning novel The English Patient
• Food fish of the genus Centropristes with a long spiny dorsal fin almost divided into two
• European river that rises in the Black Forest in Germany and flows to the Black Sea
• Spanish city in the south of the Madrid metropolitan area whose football team reached the final of the Copa del Rey in 2007 and 2008
• 1961 hit single written and recorded by Sam Cooke
• The short-lived perennial herb Anethum graveolens
• In Greek mythology, a princess of Colchis who assisted Jason in obtaining the Golden Fleece from her father

Down Clues

• Crippled son of Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Latin phrase meaning ‘for each year’
• Geometric drawing toy developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965
• A signal, such as a siren, indicating that an air raid is over
• American comedian and actor who played Scott Calvin in the 1994 film The Santa Clause
• The only person to have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National as both jockey and trainer
• Former England striker who had two spells at Tottenham Hotspur before returning as a youth team coach
• Public research university in the Uxbridge area of London
• In Egyptian mythology, the jackal-headed deity who conducted the dead to judgment
• A short coat for a baby
• Water spirits of Scottish folklore, typically taking the form of a horse
• Giacomo ___, Italian early Baroque composer, noted as one of the first composers of oratorios, such as Jephte
• Comic book superhero created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939
• Title shared by albums by The Lovin’ Spoonful, Mariah Carey and Katherine Jenkins
• BBC TV drama series set on Jersey
• American TV series starring Miley Cyrus
• The marine animal Heliopora coerulea, which produces a massive skeleton of aragonite
• The seventh sign of the zodiac
• Play by Victoria Wood first performed in 1978
• Paul McCartney’s first and only UK number one as a solo artist
• 70s sitcom that starred Pauline Collins and John Alderton as Clara and Charles Danby
• 1759 satire by Voltaire subtitled l’Optimisme
• Joseph ___, English actor who popularised the role of Clown in many Pantomimes and Harlequinades of the early 1800s
• The capital of South Australia
• Poisonous evergreen Mediterranean shrub or tree also called rosebay
• Fictional material in the 1961 Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor which gave its name to a 1997 remake
• See 6
• Queen of Persia whose story is recounted in the Old Testament book that bears here name
• In anthropology, a clan or group that believes itself to be descended from a common ancestor