Jumbo General February 18, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 32 Across and 52 Across? Connection from #711 Xenon, Jasper and Corona are hardware revisions of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console

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Crossword GK Jumbo 712 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 18, 2023

Across Clues

• 1952 musical film starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger
• Extensive treatise on political economy by Karl Marx whose first volume was published in 1867
• Rock and roll pioneer whose backing band were the Crickets
• The third largest city in Japan
• Annual international dog show organised by the Kennel Club
• 1988 film by John Waters adapted into a musical in 2002
• Rock and roll pioneer whose hits include Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
• 1985 Ridley Scott fantasy film starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara and Tim Curry
• ___ Love, song written by Lionel Richie that Billboard has named the greatest song duet of all time
• Caribbean island on which Sir Viv Richards was born
• East Sussex resort that gives its name to a 1066 battle that took place eight miles to the north at Senlac Hill
• Dirk ___, English actor who was the first British president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival
• The largest of the Dodecanese islands
• Rock and roll pioneer imprisoned in 1962 for transporting a 14-year-old girl across state lines
• The second most populous commune in the suburbs of Paris, after Boulogne-Billancourt
• In cricket, an illegal delivery from which the batsman can be dismissed only by being run out
• Don ___, American humorist, journalist and author best known for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel
• 1978 play by Harold Pinter inspired by his extramarital affair with BBC presenter Joan Bakewell
• Coastal city in Liguria whose Ariston Theatre hosts an annual music festival that inspired the Eurovision Song Contest
• The capital of Iraq
• Maiden name of Eva Perón
• Rock and roll pioneer whose hits include Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally and Good Golly, Miss Molly
• Duo comprising brothers Pat and Greg Kane best known for their 1987 top ten hit Labour of Love
• Colour of the snooker ball worth two points
• Title character and main protagonist of Disney’s 1994 animated film The Lion King
• Rock and roll pioneer who had a Number 1 hit with Runaway in 1961
• In bullfighting, a decorated barbed dart thrust into the bull’s neck or shoulder
• 1931 novel by Pearl S Buck

Down Clues

• An acute contagious viral disease of cattle, characterised by severe inflammation of the intestinal tract and diarrhoea
• Chess piece that moves diagonally
• Mickey ___, author of crime novels featuring detective Mike Hammer
• In Norse mythology, the goddess of love and fecundity
• Actor who received Oscar nominations for Apollo 13, The Truman Show, Pollock and The Hours
• The largest continent
• Team founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878
• Unit of angular measure equal to one sixtieth of a degree
• The alter ego of Steve Rogers in comic books published by Marvel Comics
• The layer of feathers covering the body of a bird
• One of the most important megalithic monuments in Europe, on Salisbury Plain
• Imaginary small Welsh village in which Dylan Thomas’ play Under Milk Wood is set
• Emmanuel ___, Togolese striker whose Premier League clubs included Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur
• 1977 Thin Lizzy hit single from the album Johnny the Fox
• Ferde ___, American composer, arranger and pianist best known for his Grand Canyon Suite
• A cycle of sixty-three poems by A E Housman published in 1896
• A small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, with an active volcano
• See 41
• Unit of length equal to 22 yards
• A crude idol of Krishna wheeled through Puri on a gigantic chariot
• Former Conservative MP who was Minister of State for International Development from 2010 to 2014
• Queen song that was the UK Christmas number one in 1975 and 1991
• A former Spanish gold coin
• The number of people voting in an election
• Spanish city on the River Tagus famous for steel and swords since the first century
• Small homopterous insects that feed by sucking the juices from plants
• The common viper Vipera berus
• BBC sitcom written by Carla Lane that starred Felicity Kendal as Gemma Palmer