Jumbo General April 01, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 27 Across and 35 Across? Connection from #717 Rob Roy, Woodstock and Waverley are novels by Sir Walter Scott

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Crossword GK Jumbo 718 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 01, 2023

Across Clues

• Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics
• Actor who played Johnny Cash in the film Walk the Line
• French Gypsy girl in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• American golfer who won the 1977 USPGA Championship in a three hole sudden-death playoff
• Village in Merseyside that regularly plays host to golf’s Open Championship
• Historical and geographic area in southeast Europe comprising parts of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey
• Periodical literary magazine, founded by Charles Dickens, in which his A Tale of Two Cities was first published
• Drink whose varieties include Cognac and Armagnac
• Pop group who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with Making Your Mind Up
• Musical direction that a note is to be held for or beyond its full time value
• One-act “satirical musical sketch” by George Grossmith performed by the D’Oyly Carte Company as a curtain raiser to HMS Pinafore
• Genus of plants that includes auricula, cowslip and oxlip
• Surname of newspaper barons Viscount Northcliffe and Viscount Rothermere
• 1952 King Vidor film starring Jennifer Jones in the title role
• Genus of plants in the family Fabaceae also known as Sweet Clover
• 1984 novel by J G Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
• Horse that won the 1978 Grand National
• See 18
• The 12th sign of the zodiac
• River that flows from mid-Hampshire to join with Southampton Water
• A thick rope or cable for mooring or towing a ship
• Bowing technique for stringed instruments in which the bow bounces lightly upon the string
• The fungal infection tinea pedis
• The capital of the Netherlands
• The official dessert of Massachusetts
• Word, used especially by medieval scribes to indicate the end of a book, part of a manuscript, etc.

Down Clues

• Cathedral city on the River Nene
• See 31
• Heitor ___, Brazilian composer whose works include the ballet Amazonas
• One of the seven emirates constituting the United Arab Emirates, bordered by Sharjah
• The state capital of Florida
• West African republic bordered by Senegal to the north
• Any of a group of proteins that are produced by living cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions
• See 47
• ___ Trevigiana, white Italian wine grape variety that is a DOC-permitted blending grape for Prosecco
• Legendary king of Flanders who is an unofficial patron saint of beer or beer brewing
• A prehistoric Peruvian tomb or temple, usually a truncated pyramid of stone, often of immense size
• Anything resembling a tongue in shape or function
• The colour of unbleached linen
• Puppet in the children’s TV series Rainbow with an oval head and big blue eyes
• A three-pronged spear
• The proboscis monkey genus
• The state capital of North Carolina
• Merlene ___, athlete who began her career representing Jamaica, but represented Slovenia from 2002 to 2012
• 1908 novel by G K Chesterton, subtitled A Nightmare
• 1998 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
• 1986 John le Carré novel about a secret agent called Magnus Pym
• World Heritage Site that forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic
• A mixture of wheat flour and fat used as the thickening agent in several classical French sauces
• An “Opera-oratorio after Sophocles” by Igor Stravinsky, first performed in 1927
• One of the Judaic names of God, translated as “God Almighty”
• Hardware specification for a handheld-sized computer or PDA that runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile Classic operating system
• A former name for radon
• American multinational toy and board game company founded by three brothers
• English actor best remembered for playing Private Joe Walker in Dad’s Army
• The standard monetary unit of Lesotho, divided into 100 lisente