Jumbo General March 25, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15 Across, 35 Across and 53 Across? Connection from #716 David Lloyd George, C S Lewis and Richard Nixon have been played by Anthony Hopkins

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Crossword GK Jumbo 717 by Eimi posted on Saturday, March 25, 2023

Across Clues

• Body of water in New South Wales created by the damming of Hunt Creek in 1855
• Capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir
• Amedeo ___, Italian physicist noted for his contributions to molecular theory
• American actress, comedian and writer who won an Emmyfor playing Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live
• 1995 Michael Caton-Jones film starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt and Tim Roth
• American silent film actress known as the “It-girl”
• Wooden pin that serves as a fulcrum in rowing
• Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines, founded as a typewriter company in 1908
• Canadian darts player nicknamed Darth Maple
• Brazilian city in which the United States beat England in the 1950 World Cup finals
• A small type of harpsichord with one manual
• Large crocodilian of the southern US with powerful jaws and sharp teeth
• Sir Arthur Wing ___, English dramatist whose works include Dandy Dick and The Second Mrs Tanqueray
• Inflammation of the entire heart
• Horse that won the 1977 Derby
• Deciduous tree of the Tilia genus with heart-shaped leaves
• Bird in the comic strip Peanuts whose chirping is represented in print as hash marks
• Literary magazine founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University
• 1988 film about the ‘dingo baby’ case starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill
• US state whose capital is Frankfort
• Adopted son of Barney and Betty Rubble in The Flintstones
• Indian dish made with cucumber, peppers, mint and various spices in yoghurt
• Small North Yorkshire village that gave Harold Wilson his baronial name
• Native ethnic group of the North Caucasus who refer to themselves as Ghalghai
• 2000 top ten single by Coldplay
• Common name for the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua
• Edinburgh’s main railway station
• The herbaceous perennial plant Solidago canadensis, native to Canada and the United States

Down Clues

• Steward of Olivia’s household in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
• Alban ___, Austrian composer who wrote the operas Wozzeck and Lulu
• Title poem in an 1855 volume by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• 1908 novel by E M Forster featuring the character Lucy Honeychurch
• School founded in 1440 by King Henry VI
• Luxurious French resort city on the Bay of Biscay
• American fashion doll launched in March 1959
• Coronation anthem by Handel on which the UEFA Champions League Anthem is based
• A polyphonic choral composition used as an anthem in the Roman Catholic service
• English filmmaker who directed more than fifty feature films between 1922 and 1976
• Fry’s dog in the animated TV series Futurama
• 1998 John Frankenheimer film starring Robert De Niro and Jean Reno
• A specialised leaf with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil
• Icterus galbula, the state bird of Maryland
• A piece of music composed for a group of nine instruments
• 1972 film based on a Broadway play of the same name by Woody Allen
• Nikolai ___, Russian composer whose works include the orchestral suite Scheherazade
• Greek god of fields, woods, shepherds, and flocks, represented as a man with a goat’s legs, horns and ears
• Coniferous tree with spreading branches, needle-like evergreen leaves and erect barrel-shaped cones
• General secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union from 1985 to 1992
• Film that in its most recent incarnation starred Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
• Character voiced by Robin Williams in the 1992 Disney version of Aladdin
• The capital of Nigeria
• 1974 Top 10 hit written and performed by Billy Swan
• First name of Ronnie Corbett’s character in the 1980s sitcom Sorry!
• ___ Hatch, village in Essex that is home to a cold war bunker that is open to the public
• The Manassa ___, nickname of boxer Jack Dempsey
• Tex ___, American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director whose creations include Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny
• See 31
• River on which Florence, Empoli and Pisa stand