Jumbo General October 23, 2021 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 22, 35 and 46 Across? Connection from #643 Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Gosling and Robert De Niro are restaurateurs

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Crossword GK Jumbo 644 by Eimi posted on Saturday, October 23, 2021

Across Clues

• 1965 Elvis Presley number one written by Artie Glenn
• Device attached to a bottle for dispensing spirits
• An ancient Celtic May Day festival
• Port and resort in Liguria, Italy, in which two treaties were signed after World War I
• Writer of histories and annals of the Roman Empire
• Samson ___, drama by John Milton
• Surname of the British philosopher awarded a Nobel Prize in 1950
• Rainer Maria ___, Prague-born German poet whose works include the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies
• Irish Gaelic
• Yeomen of the Guard at the Tower of London
• Port city on the Firth of Tay
• Southern US state bought from the French in 1803
• Surname of the central character in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Communications code word for the letter B
• Small spiny-finned fish found in shallow coastal waters
• Location of England’s largest container port
• ___ Bell, pen name of Emily Brontë
• Large triangular jib or foresail, often a feature of racing yachts
• Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmore’s novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor
• The technical name for the wrist
• Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice about the second wife of Juan Perón
• BBC teletext information service
• Component of fertilisers and explosives, also known as potassium nitrate
• One of Spike Milligan’s roles in The Goon Show
• Fairy in J M Barrie works
• 1815 Jane Austen novel
• City in Brittany, France, whose twin town in England is Plymouth
• Relating to languages derived from Latin
• 17th-century painter born at Leiden in the Netherlands
• Town in NW France that was an early lace-manufacturing centre
• Another name for the grenadier, a gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae
• Warwickshire batsman who made his Test debut for England against the West Indies at The Oval in 2004
• A tenth part of produce, income or profits, contributed for the support of the church or clergy
• Another name for glossolalia

Down Clues

• ___ and Kings, 1904 O Henry novel set in a fictitious Republic of Anchuria
• River which rises in N Wyoming, flowing through America’s largest national park towards the Missouri
• Vitamin of the B complex, occurring in milk, liver and yeast
• 2006 play by Howard Brenton based on the story of Heloise and Abelard
• Best picture at the 1983 Oscars
• Highest part of the heavens, thought by the ancients to contain the pure element of fire
• The episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome
• Dorset town that has the largest natural harbour in Europe
• US term for the constellation Ursa Minor
• Communications code word for the letter O
• 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, based on the Philip K Dick story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
• Tropical American tree bearing kidney-shaped edible nuts
• 20th-century British cellist and conductor chiefly associated with the Hallé orchestra
• Name for helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon
• Irish political party founded by Éamon de Valera in 1926
• Debut album by Patti Smith, released in 1975
• 1974 Top Ten single by Freddie Starr
• Large insect of the order Hemiptera, the male of which produces a nocturnal droning noise
• The Great Bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament
• Western Australian town named Stuart until 1931
• Defender who participated in a club record three promotions with West Bromwich Albion
• A large travelling case hinged at the back so as to open out into two compartments
• A follower or expounder of the pre-Copernican system of astronomy that placed the earth at the centre of the universe
• Georg Philipp ___, German composer, contemporary of J S Bach and Vivaldi
• Case in which bottles may be locked with their contents visible
• Isolated mountain peak above a surface of ice or snow
• A type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union
• A J ___, Scottish novelist whose works include The Stars Look Down and The Citadel
• Greek goddess of fortune whose Roman counterpart is Fortuna
• Surname of the US inventor of the electric telegraph