Jumbo General June 25, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 19, 36 and 56 Across? Connection from #677 Steve Martin, Billy Connolly and Marshall Brickman are banjo players

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Crossword GK Jumbo 678 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 25, 2022

Across Clues

• Circuit in Mogyoród, near Budapest, that in 1986 hosted the first Formula 1 Grand Prix behind the Iron Curtain
• Devices screwed into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine which ignite the explosive mixture
• City in Piedmont famed for its sparkling wine
• Carlo ___, author of The Adventures of Pinocchio
• The administrative centre of Essex
• Instrument used to measure the electric current in a circuit
• Willem ___, American actor whose films include Platoon and The Last Temptation of Christ
• Author of Peter Pan
• The 12th sign of the zodiac
• Comic strip created by Chester Gould in 1931
• Japanese camera, printer and photocopier company founded in 1936
• Oscar-nominated 1993 film written and directed by Jane Campion
• Rock group in which Jools Holland came to fame as a keyboard player
• Large prawns, usually eaten fried in breadcrumbs
• Country whose capital is Dhaka
• Row of chalk stacks off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, close to Alum Bay
• Writer and director of the 1959 film Plan 9 from Outer Space
• London’s second largest airport
• Second largest of the Channel Islands
• A hot drink of port and lemon juice, usually spiced and sweetened
• A native of America’s Sooner State
• Former West Ham United and England midfielder who was knighted in 2004
• The American bird Eudocimus albus
• Edible sea snail of the genus Haliotis
• 1999 film starring Harry Connick Jr and Pete Postlethwaite
• The African antelope Oryx gazella
• See 47
• Sweet manufacturer in the Roald Dahl children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Small aquatic creature of the family Myctophidae that emits light from its sides

Down Clues

• 1956 film starring Dirk Bogarde based on a 1950 novel by A J Cronin
• Rare soft metallic element whose atomic number is 49
• French brandy distilled from the remains of grapes pressed for wine-making
• The bird Streptopelia decaocto
• Singer born born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong in 1971
• Another name for a will-o’-the-wisp, meaning “foolish fire”
• Author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
• Singer born Harry Roger Webb in 1940
• Gelatinous substance derived from seaweed and used to thicken ice cream
• 1936 Alfred Hitchcock film based on a novel by W Somerset Maugham
• Novel by Rudyard Kipling about the orphaned son of an Irish soldier
• Mexican tortilla that is toasted or deep fried
• Julian ___, former Birmingham City, West Ham United and Liverpool defender who was known as “The Terminator”
• Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates of the class Aves
• Frank Capra film that won Best Picture at the 1934 Oscars
• The edible woodland fungus Boletus edulis
• Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair
• 2004 film for which Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo won Oscar nominations
• A collection of classical Greek sculptures that originally decorated the Parthenon and were brought to England by Thomas Bruce
• Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology after whom a psychological complex is named
• The European songbird Luscinia megarhynchos
• Morarji ___, the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress
• Pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin
• The capital of the province of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea
• A flock of pheasants on the ground
• Ancient Egyptian god who was ruler of the underworld and judge of the dead
• The capital of the Independent State of Samoa
• Word used to describe an image file used by digital cameras containing unprocessed data
• Hillman car model produced between 1932 and 1970
• County known as “The Garden of England”