Jumbo General July 02, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17, 26 and 38 Across? Connection from #678 J M Barrie, Ed Wood and Willy Wonka have been played by Johnny Depp in films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 679 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 02, 2022

Across Clues

• Novel by Charles Dickens featuring the character Arthur Clennam
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980
• Queen of Persia whose story is recounted in the Old Testament book that bears here name
• Genus of American and Caribbean plants also called lisianthus
• Jeff ___, Irish international midfielder who joined Newcastle United from Burnley in 2020
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1991
• Members of a Protestant sect that rejects infant baptism and the doctrine of transubstantiation
• The capital of Uganda
• Comic book superhero created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1939
• The capital of Liberia
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1981, 1983 and 1984
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000
• An aircraft able to fly in air currents without the use of an engine
• Mountainous Italian island that was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first place of exile
• Trading name for ExxonMobil based on Standard Oil’s initials
• An Indian family name, meaning a seller of perfumes
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1992
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1985, 1986 and 1989
• Straw used for drinking mate from a gourd
• Metallic element whose atomic number is 68
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1987
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1975
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1988 and 1990
• Italian dessert made with savoiardi biscuits, sugar, mascarpone, coffee and sometimes Marsala
• Best picture at the 1988 Oscars
• Roman poet and satirist whose works include the Ars Poetica
• Actor, singer and comedian who played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1974 and 1982

Down Clues

• Group whose 1994 single Connection was used as the theme tune to the programme Trigger Happy TV
• Single by Danny & the Juniors that topped the US Billboard chart in 1958
• Sir Carmichael ___, the C of murder victims in in Agatha Christie’s novel The ABC Murders
• Anthony ___, 1936 film, based on a novel by Hervey Allen, starring Fredric March in the title tole
• Son of Zeus and Hera who was the Greek god of warfare
• Japanese city largely destroyed by the first atomic bomb used in war on August 6, 1945
• 1995 cyberpunk film starring Keanu Reeves in the title role, loosely based on a story by William Gibson
• Cheshire town, setting for the BBC comedy series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
• Mexican food item whose name literally means ‘young donkey’
• A strip of pleated or frilled lawn, lace, etc,worn around the neck like a small ruff as in the 16th century
• English ska band fronted by Buster Bloodvessel
• US state whose capital is Boise
• Small, faint constellation between Cygnus and Andromeda whose name is Latin for “Lizard”
• 1819 novel by Sir Walter Scott
• Actress who played Jessica Fletcher in the TV series Murder, She Wrote
• Youngest son of the deceased Sir Roland de Boys in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
• The point on the celestial sphere directly below an observer
• Branch of mathematics in which alphabetic symbols represent unknown numbers
• 1986 single by The Smiths that reached number 11 in the UK chart
• The capital of Guadeloupe
• Small body in seed-bearing plants that contains the egg cell
• Former name for Ethiopia
• Sheikhdom on the Persian Gulf whose capital is Manama
• Administrative centre of the Shetland Islands
• What 3 is to 27
• The fifth largest city in New York State
• City that is home to the largest airport on Cyprus
• Indian dish made with cucumber, peppers, mint and various spices in yoghurt
• A colourless odourless flammable gaseous alkane obtained from natural gas and petroleum
• The leading female role in Puccini’s opera La bohème