Jumbo General December 31, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15 Across, 23 Across and 50 Across? Connection from #704 Vixen, Comet and Cupid are among Santa’s reindeer

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Crossword GK Jumbo 705 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 31, 2022

Across Clues

• 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe whose three main characters are Sherman McCoy, Larry Kramer and Peter Fallow
• 1962 film that earned Frank Perry a Best Director Oscar nomination
• French city on the Bay of Biscay, capital of the Charente-Maritime department
• Australian actor famous for his portrayal of Horace Rumpole
• Welsh county created in 1972 from the administrative counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire
• Nickname of funk bassist William Collins
• A tau cross with a loop on the top
• English rock band that featured brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for My Fair Lady
• Son of Zeus and Hera who was the Greek god of warfare
• City on the southern Seward Peninsula coast that was once the most populous in Alaska
• Actress whose films include The Big Easy and Sea of Love
• BBC documentary series narrated by Julia Sawalha and Doon Mackichan
• Dragon in The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
• English rock band comprising brothers Jez and Andy Williams and Jimi Goodwin
• 1944 ballet score by Aaron Copland
• British diver who won the women’s 10 metre platform gold medal at the inaugural European Games in 2015
• Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides north-east of Islay
• Dave Dee, ___, Beaky, Mick & Tich, group that topped the singles chart in the UK in 1968 with The Legend of Xanadu
• French artist from one of whose works the term Impressionism is derived
• In Anglo-Saxon England, a man who ranked between a freeman and a hereditary noble
• Simple board game that takes its name from the Latin for “I play”
• Unit of length equal to one thousandth of a millimetre
• Dog who in 1957 became the first animal launched into orbit
• English singer-songwriter and pianist who has announced that he will perform his last ever UK show at Glastonbury in 2023
• Italian artist born Michelangelo Merisi
• BBC comedy programme that starred Chris Langham as Roy Mallard
• Rose Royce single that reached number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1978

Down Clues

• 1944 British film based on the 1933 novel Reporter! by Ken Attiwill
• Arrigo ___, Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer who wrote the opera Mefistofele
• American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist and author whose books include Requiem for the American Dream
• Department in France named after a tributary of the Seine, whose capital is Châteauroux
• French brand of mineral water coming from several sources on the south shore of Lake Geneva
• Geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands
• The capital of Nova Scotia
• 2004 Mike Leigh film starring Imelda Staunton in the title role
• Former England footballer who made his debut for Tottenham Hotspur against Hull City, a team he went on to manage briefly
• 1978 film starring Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck
• Richard ___, former Kent and England swing bowler named as one of Wisden’s five cricketers of the year in 1986
• Old name for a motor car
• Australian finance, insurance and banking corporation that holds the naming rights of Lang Park, home of the Brisbane Broncos and Queensland Reds
• Former Radio 1 DJ who presents Drivetime and the Album Show on Greatest Hits Radio
• English critic, essayist, poet and writer whose poems include The Story of Rimini
• Genus of lizard first described by Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768
• Electronic music duo consisting of Róisín Murphy and Mark Brydon
• Andy ___, nom de plume of the author of Bravo Two Zero
• 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten
• Australian artist best known for a series of pictures of the bushranger Ned Kelly
• Former footballer who managed Queens Park Rangers, Millwall and the US national team
• 1936 British film starring Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy, Jean Winton and Ronald Shiner
• Food traditionally eaten at Hogmanay parties in Glasgow and central areas of Scotland
• Konrad ___, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
• The third largest city in the United States
• The capital of Kenya
• A type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one
• Diacritical mark placed over a letter to indicate a palatal nasal consonant, as in the Spanish señor
• Preparation of tarred fibre used in shipbuilding for caulking