Jumbo General January 21, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 40 Across and 51 Across? Connection from #707 Adolf Hitler, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Mark Zuckerberg have been Time magazine’s Person of the Year

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Crossword GK Jumbo 708 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 21, 2023

Across Clues

• Low-lying area in South Yorkshire associated with a 633 battle
• Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Dalmatia
• Sir Stephen ___, character in Shakespeare’s King Richard the Second
• Cynical and misanthropic philosopher in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens
• In Greek mythology, the messenger and herald of the gods, whose Roman counterpart is Mercury
• 1959 Boulting Brothers film satire on British industrial life starring Peter Sellers
• French horseman and breeder whose father William and son Freddy were leading jockeys and trainers
• See 54
• Criminologist and film-maker awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2004 and an OBE in 2006
• The Hindu goddess of wealth, fortune and prosperity and the consort of the god Vishnu
• A mountain nymph in Greek mythology
• Scottish rock group whose song Rip It Up reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart in 1983
• See 51
• The only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist Longus
• Manager who had three caretaker spells at Tottenham Hotspur after resigning as permanent manager in 1987
• Puppet dog associated with Bob Carolgees
• 1988 film starring Sean Connery and Mark Harmon
• See 31
• Another name for the constellation Capricorn
• See 23
• The climbing leguminous plant Lathyrus odoratus
• Swiss city that is capital of Vaud canton
• 1945 Billy Wilder film, starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman, based on a novel of the same title by Charles R Jackson
• Canadian singer who won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland
• Character created by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield who makes frequent references to his own “‘umbleness”
• Bermondsey-based football club wound up by the High Court in 2009
• Len ___, General Secretary of Unite from 2011 to 2021
• Horse that won the 1989 Grand National

Down Clues

• Author of the novel Love in a Cold Climate
• See 43
• Cow pie-eating character who has appeared in The Dandy since its first issue in December 1937
• Canadian singer-songwriter whose hits include Constant Craving and Miss Chatelaine
• Three act play by John Osborne, first produced in 1957, whose main character is Archie Rice
• The capital of Eritrea
• Jacob van ___, Dutch landscape painter described by Kenneth Clark as “the greatest master of the natural vision before Constable”
• One of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint, along with loop and whorl
• 2006 computer-animated film loosely based on a comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T Lewis
• English professional wrestler in the World of Sport era born Michael Harrison in 1921
• Bram ___, author of Dracula
• ___ Brooks, English rock, blues and jazz singer born Elaine Bookbinder in 1946
• Any solution obtained by leaching, such as the caustic solution obtained by leaching wood ash
• Northern Irish racing car manufacturer in whose cars Nigel Mansell, John Watson and Eddie Jordan have driven
• Oscar-winning musical based on a 1944 novella by Colette
• 1986 French film, starring Gérard Depardieu, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol
• Jack ___, mythical giant of Yorkshire lore who haunts lonely roads
• In the US, a cemetery where the poor or unidentified are buried at the public expense
• North American amphibian with seemingly “hand-drawn” squares on its dorsal surface
• 1972 top ten hit single by David Bowie
• The largest continent
• Spaghetti alla ___, Neapolitan pasta dish typically made with tomatoes, olive oil, olives, anchovies, chili peppers, capers and garlic
• Town in South Ayrshire famous for its ‘Royal’ golf course, one of the hosts of the Open Golf Championship
• In the Old Testament, Abraham’s nephew whose wife was changed into a pillar of salt
• Nickname of singer Aretha Franklin
• 1986 Ken Russell film starring Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley
• In Irish mythology, the daughter of Balor and the mother of Lugh
• Comic published by D C Thomson from 1953 to 1990, when it merged with The Beezer
• Disputed territory in the Balkans whose capital is Pristina
• Character in the Disney films Frozen and Frozen II, loosely based on the title character of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen