Jumbo General May 20, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 5 Across, 17 Across and 28 Across? Connection from #724 Hawthorn, Piquet and Hamilton are surnames of Formula 1 world champion drivers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 725 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 20, 2023

Across Clues

• The largest island of Spain
• Large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex
• Scottish market town made a Royal Burgh in 1140 by King David I
• British skeleton racer who in 2010 became the first British individual gold medallist at a Winter Olympics for 30 years
• Song by Francesco Paolo Tosti covered by Enrico Caruso, and as Good-bye by John McCormack, Richard Tauber and José Carreras
• Region of New Zealand, site of the country’s first university
• A transparent object that refracts light
• Home ground of Hereford FC and formerly Hereford United Football Club from 1924
• Japanese brewery founded in Osaka in 1889
• A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between the Girondins and the Jacobins
• A cocktail made with gin and Pernod
• A large greyish dog of a rough-coated breed
• A long sleeveless outer vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass
• A large prawn or small lobster
• Comedian who appeared on the BBC TV series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze and Jan Hunt in the 1970s
• Peruvian tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1959
• Swedish-born actor whose films include The Exorcist and Pelle the Conqueror
• Town in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire with a ruined medieval abbey and a 14th-century three-sided bridge
• The North American plant Rudbeckia hirta
• Device that “stores” static electricity between two electrodes on the inside and outside of it
• The day preceding Ash Wednesday
• BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke in which Paul Greenwood played a young and inexperienced police officer
• 2004 Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones
• Greek island on which Prince Philip was born
• 1981 album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• Name of a family of Italian violin makers active in Cremona from about 1549 to 1740
• American lexicographer who published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, in 1806
• Sir Peter Paul ___, prolific 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England
• Fabric named from the French word for caterpillar
• Character in J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings played by Christopher Lee in Peter Jackson’s film trilogy

Down Clues

• New Zealand bird generally believed to have become extinct by 1500 AD
• Group best known for the the single Love Will Tear Us Apart
• Best Picture at the 61st Academy Awards
• Kate & ___, US sitcom that starred Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin
• Grass of the bamboo genus Phyllostachys used to make the handle of John Steed’s umbrella in The Avengers
• The vertical part of a stair or step
• “Deep in ___ tears I’ll pledge thee” (Ae Fond Kiss, Robert Burns)
• Irish-Australian bushranger hanged for murder at Old Melbourne Gaol in 1880
• Edible pear-shaped fruit with a rough thick greenish-brown skin and creamy flesh
• Jordan’s only seaport
• 1977 number one single by Abba
• Football team that won two European Cups under Brian Clough
• Device also known as an atom smasher
• A pair of moray eels in the animated Disney film The Little Mermaid
• The largest of the Dodecanese islands
• Series of computer games set in the fictional nation of Albion created by Peter Molyneux
• Common name for the bird Strix varia
• Character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz who was the only girl without a cap on Charlie Brown’s baseball team
• Chronic inflammation of the hair follicles, especially those of the beard, caused by a staphylococcal infection
• Another name for the great skua, Stercorarius skua
• Vladimír ___, scorer of Liverpool’s second goal in the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final
• Tree of the genus Diospyros that has hard dark wood
• Something wanted as a necessity
• A native of Scotland’s largest city
• Common name for the tree Fraxinus pennsylvanica
• English football team nicknamed ‘the Toffees’
• Adjective applied to a car made between 1919 and 1930
• Andrés ___, Colombian footballer who was shot and killed after scoring an own goal in the 1994 FIFA World Cup
• A young unfledged bird, especially a pigeon
• Another name for Pallas’s cat
• The administrative centre of East Sussex
• 1985 Akira Kurosawa film partly inspired by Shakespeare’s King Lear