Jumbo General April 29, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11 Across, 35 Across and 55 Across? Connection from #721 Princess Caroline, Jamie Lee Curtis and Melanie Griffith are daughters of women who starred in Hitchcock films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 722 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 29, 2023

Across Clues

• “Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre” by French composer Claude Debussy
• The longest river in the Republic of Ireland
• 2004 single by Stereophonics that reached number 5 in the UK
• 2003 Farrelly brothers film starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins
• Popular song written by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler in 1939 for the show The Little Dog Laughed
• Fictional scorer in the radio comedy panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
• The Muslim name for God
• Famous aria from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet sometimes referred to as L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
• Camera brand, the first of which was built by Oskar Barnack in 1913
• Open-source computer operating system first released in 1991
• John D Loudermilk song that was a hit for The Everly Brothers in 1961
• A Hungarian dance in two movements, one slow and the other fast
• See 34
• Nymph who brought up the infant Zeus on goat’s milk
• English composer whose works include A Sea Symphony, A London Symphony and A Pastoral Symphony
• An intricate multicoloured pattern knitted with Shetland wool
• Iron salt used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia
• The capital of Northern Ireland
• Fraction equal to 40%
• The second largest US state
• American band who had a 1978 hit with Kiss You All Over
• Latin hymn of the 13th century, describing the Last Judgment
• 1963 play by Bill Naughton filmed in 1966 and 2004
• A measure of processing speed, consisting of a million floating-point operations a second
• London Underground station on the Northern Line, between Goodge Street and Euston, and the Victoria Line, between Oxford Circus and Euston
• Welsh poet whose poetry collections include After Every Green Thing and Running Late
• Cape on the SW coast of Spain that was the scene of a decisive naval battle in 1805 in which Nelson was mortally wounded
• See 8 Down
• Suburb of Liverpool that is home to John Lennon Airport

Down Clues

• Home of the platoon led by Captain Square in Dad’s Army
• Kingdom centred on the valley of the River Trent from approx 527-900AD whose capital was Tamworth
• The pupal stage of butterflies
• Name given to any book printed before 1500
• Plant of the genus Rumex with acid-tasting leaves used in salads and sauces
• Author of A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver’s Travels
• African country whose capital is Harare
• American actor who married Demi Moore in 2005
• Pilot’s only number one single in the UK, topping the charts for three weeks in February 1975
• The main vessel in the arterial network
• 1957 novel by Nevil Shute
• A vector graphics editor developed and marketed by a Canadian corporation that was initially released in 1989
• Actress who played Dr Nikki Alexander in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness
• Town in Bavaria that was the site of a Nazi concentration camp
• See 28
• British writer best known for the 1859 didactic work Self-Help
• The Australian cockatoo Kakatoe roseicapilla
• Dutch city that was home to the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620
• Mountainous plateau region occupying about one sixth of France
• Activist who stood in the US Presidential Elections four times between 1996 and 2008
• 1982 film starring Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason and Milo O’Shea
• Part of the Pacific between Australia and New Zealand
• Technical name for a boil
• Japanese physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson
• Francisco ___, Spanish conqueror of Peru who murdered the Inca King Atahualpa and founded Lima as the new capital
• Name for will-o’-the-wisp that literally means “foolish fire”
• Play exploring the conflict between capital and labour written by John Galsworthy in 1909
• See 46
• Drink consisting of liqueur poured over crushed ice