Jumbo General April 08, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 38 Across and 57 Across? Connection from #718 Esmeralda, Primula and Melilot are names of the Brandybucks in J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

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Crossword GK Jumbo 719 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 08, 2023

Across Clues

• American actor whose films include Smokey and the Bandit, Deliverance and Boogie Nights
• The third studio album by Oasis, released in 1997
• Coastal town on the Severn Estuary that is the location of the HQ of Avon and Somerset Constabulary
• Queen of England, July 9-19, 1553
• Comic book character created by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé
• Margery ___, English crime writer who created gentleman sleuth Albert Campion
• 2009 album by Trey Songz nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards
• Italian city in Emilia-Romagna noted for food such as ham and cheese
• County in north-west Wales, named after an old kingdom
• Metallic element whose atomic number is 41
• Literal translation of the word aardvark
• 1956 John Osborne play featuring the angry young man Jimmy Porter
• 1993 album and single by James
• See 27
• Monetary unit of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan worth one hundredth of a rupee
• Former Portuguese midfielder, who won 96 caps, elected president of Benfica in 2021
• Scottish pro-independence political party founded in 2021
• Comic book character who replaced Biffo the Bear on the front cover of The Beano in September 1974
• See 35
• Form of pasta consisting of wide flat sheets
• Character in a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo
• Song by Steps that was their second and last UK number one single
• Town in Apulia that was one of the central cities of the Byzantine Empire
• English city on the River Soar
• A mechanical model of the solar system
• The main character and narrator in the books Kidnapped and Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha” in a novel by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes
• The third largest city in Lower Saxony, Germany
• Protagonist in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M Schulz

Down Clues

• The most important river in Spain
• American jazz pianist who posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989
• The most celebrated of the Hindu deities, whose life story is told in the Mahabharata
• The Greek goddess of health
• American singer-songwriter born Robert Allen Zimmerman in May 1941
• French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist who served in the Franco-Prussian War
• Former prime minister and author whose novels include Coningsby and Sybil
• Italian Renaissance artist whose paintings include the Mona Lisa
• Libyan city called Euesperides by the ancient Greeks
• Poem by Walter Savage Landor that begins “Ah, what avails the sceptred race!”
• US state whose capital is Boise
• Neighbourhood in the south of Rio de Janeiro featured in a classic bossa nova jazz song by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes
• Hit song from Ivor Novello’s 1945 musical Perchance to Dream
• Collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce first published in 1914
• Market town in South Gloucestershire that hosts a twice-yearly Mop Fair
• See 46
• See 6
• Diurnal fish-eating bird of prey sometimes called a sea hawk
• The largest town in Thurrock, Essex
• Village in Aberdeenshire that hosts an annual Highland Games that is traditionally attended by the Royal Family
• American actor whose TV roles include Al Burns in Unforgettable and Sam Lane in Superman & Lois
• Song by Muse that was the official theme song of the 2012 Olympics
• The outer germ layer of an animal embryo
• Circuit in Hampshire used for a number of motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3
• British historian and art historian whose TV series include A History of Britain and The Romantics and Us
• American TV series that starred Peter Falk in the title role
• ___ Kitt, American actress and singer best known for her 1953 hit Santa Baby
• Ian ___, Scottish crime writer best known for his Inspector Rebus novels
• Imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 AD