Jumbo General July 23, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 19, 39 and 56 Across? Connection from #681 Carlo Levi, Salvador Allende and Harry Hill were all doctors

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Crossword GK Jumbo 682 by Eimi posted on Saturday, July 23, 2022

Across Clues

• The most prestigious National Hunt race, first run in March 1924
• The technical name for mother-of-pearl
• A large powerfully-built Japanese breed of dog
• American singer-songwriter whose albums include Pieces of the Sky and Wrecking Ball
• 1998 animated film featuring the voices of Kevin Spacey, Madeline Kahn and Roddy McDowall
• County cricket club that has won the most county championships
• Creature also known as a spiny anteater
• Israel’s southernmost city, a popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea
• In the Roman Catholic church, an ordained minister ranking immediately below a priest
• A colourless poisonous gas, carbonyl chloride, with an odour resembling new-mown hay
• Name under which Trevor Sutherland released the classic roots reggae album Haile I Hymn
• Home ground of Chelsea FC
• The figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
• Actor who played Beppe di Marco in EastEnders
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for On Golden Pond
• Actor who played Sméagol/Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy
• 1937 film starring Tyrone Power, Don Ameche and Alice Faye
• The gregarious Old World passerine songbird Sturnus vulgaris
• English writer whose best-loved poems include Cats and A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring), otherwise known as Morning has Broken
• The nearest planet to the sun
• A picture or sculpture of Christ crowned with thorns
• See 14
• The Golden ___ is a device used by Wonder Woman to compel people to tell the truth
• Dance music producer whose Killer, introducing Seal as a vocalist, topped the singles chart in 1990
• Ambassador of Israel to the UK from 2016 to 2020
• Informal term for a tramp, a strict ship’s officer, an alcoholic drink or a lazy sheepdog
• Name shared by albums by Gentle Giant, The Human League and The Bees
• A S ___, Scottish progressive educator and author who founded Summerhill school
• An alcoholic beverage made of fermented pear juice
• Slade’s fifth UK number one single

Down Clues

• A ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily
• African country whose capital is Asmara
• British duo formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith
• 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, originally published in French as Huis Clos
• Anouk ___, French film actress married to Albert Finney from 1970 to 1978
• The smallest and most important ball used in Quidditch, the fictional sport in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter books
• The largest lake in the British Isles
• A person who makes or sells candles
• Victorious American captain in the 2008 Ryder Cup
• 1922 German Expressionist vampire horror film, directed by F W Murnau, subtitled eine Symphonie des Grauens
• Pipe smoked by Indian Sadhu holy men
• Football team nicknamed “the Toffees”
• The Roman name for Ireland
• An appendage on seeds such as those of the yew and nutmeg
• The traditional idealised rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry
• Interplanetary pilot created by illustrator Frank Hampson for the Eagle comic in 1950
• An adult sexually-mature insect produced after metamorphosis
• Larva of various beetles of the genus Tenebrio
• Sir Colin ___, former All Black nicknamed “Pinetree”
• Confidante of Romeo in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet
• 1921 play by Eugene O’Neill that won a Pulitzer Prize
• Men’s shot put champion at the 1996 Olympics
• Sergeant ___, detective with a penchant for roses in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
• Tessa ___, university administrator and politician who became a Life Peer in 1987
• Surgical operation that involves cutting some of the nerve fibres in the frontal lobes of the brain
• The state capital of Tennessee
• In J R R Tolkien’s Middle-earth, a device by which Gondor summoned its allies in time of need
• The ___, 1885 Anton Chekhov short story about a secretary on a provincial newspaper called The Goose Gazette
• Judith ___, author of the 1975 novel Looking for Mr Goodbar
• 1981 Miloš Forman film based on a novel by E L Doctorow
• An aromatic compound derived from phenol found in coal tar and creosote
• Any tree or shrub of the genus Acer