Jumbo General August 13, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13, 34 and 50 Across? Connection from #684 Hunger, Shame and Angel are films starring Michael Fassbender

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Crossword GK Jumbo 685 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 13, 2022

Across Clues

• Group whose version of Woodstock topped the UK singles chart in 1970
• The extensive grassy plains of temperate South America
• Beethoven’s only opera
• 1998 hit single by Catatonia
• The capital of Turkey
• American poet best known for Leaves of Grass
• Son of Poseidon and brother of Ephialtes in Greek mythology
• 1975 number one single by 10cc featuring a 256-voice “virtual” choir
• See 37
• Nickname of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois military helicopter
• US state whose capital is Salem
• 1861 novel by Ellen Wood whose central character is Lady Isabel Carlyle
• Budapest football team based on the left bank of the Danube
• Prisoner whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem
• Patchwork elephant created by David McKee in 1989
• 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson film featuring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman and William H Macy
• A Persian variety of the wild ass, Equus hemionus
• James ___, prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979
• Former first lady of the Philippines who left 1060 pairs of shoes behind when she fled the country
• A lateen-rigged coastal Arab sailing vessel with one or two masts
• A commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the US Navy
• Coronation Street character who married Ernest Bishop in 1972
• Kristin ___, East Germany swimmer who won six gold medals at the 1988 Olympics
• American jazz singer and bandleader whose most famous song was Minnie the Moocher
• Deciduous tree of the Tilia genus with heart-shaped leaves
• Asian ornamental shrub named after a Moravian Jesuit missionary who introduced it to Europe
• What superstitious actors call “the Scottish play”
• The capital of Equatorial Guinea
• 1993 novel by Louis de Bernières set on the island of Cephallonia

Down Clues

• A Spanish sparkling wine similar to champagne
• Drunken butler in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest
• Jane Austen novel whose central character is Anne Elliot
• Independent cartoon strip by Sally Ann Lasson
• Figure in Scottish country dancing by means of which couples change position in the set
• In bullfighting, a pass in which the matador slowly swings the cape away from the charging bull
• The wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion in Greek mythology
• The largest city in South Africa
• Former British tennis player who reached the US Open final in 1997
• Tribe of Native Americans residing in their traditional territories in California and “25 Across”
• 1996 Coen Brothers film for which Frances McDormand won a Best Actress Oscar
• Belgian city that is the capital of Wallonia
• Julie ___, actress whose films include Educating Rita and Calendar Girls
• Darius ___, former Aston Villa, Manchester City, Ankaragücü and Leicester City striker who won 22 England caps
• Nontechnical name for innominate bone
• Dutch city that is home to the football team AZ
• The largest city in Scotland
• Jeremy ___, actor whose films include Gosford Park, An Ideal Husband and Emma
• The wife of William Shakespeare, to whom he left the “second-best bed” in his will
• Breed of dog used mainly as a sheepdog
• Mark ___, Rhodesian-born golfer who became an Irish citizen in 2003 at the age of 50
• 1942 Michael Curtiz film that won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture
• Author who created James Bond
• Italian poet who wrote the Divina Commedia
• Cumbrian village William Wordsworth described as “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found”
• A cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule
• A chemical compound containing two hydroxyl groups
• Steve ___, men’s 800m champion at the 1980 Olympics
• Beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily that feeds on crops
• Annual Asian plant, Cannabis sativa, whose tough fibres are used to make canvas and rope
• Soft cows’ cheese named after the French province in which it originated