Jumbo General September 10, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10, 19 and 48 Across? Connection from #688 Phoenix, Pierre and Bismarck are US state capitals

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Crossword GK Jumbo 689 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 10, 2022

Across Clues

• Verdi opera based on the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden
• 1994 film starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
• Vegetation consisting of stunted trees, bushes and other plants growing in an arid area
• The ___, mission in San Antonio, Texas, that was the site of a siege and massacre by Mexican forces in 1836
• 1954 film about a young boy who loves baseball
• Swiss architect, playwright and novelist whose works include Stiller and Homo Faber
• A newborn child, especially in the first week of life and up to four weeks old
• Island off the SW coast of Scotland, in the Firth of Clyde
• 1977 film starring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards, based on Lillian Hellman’s book Pentimento
• Offspinner who played nine Tests and 49 ODIs for Pakistan from 1989 to 1995 before becoming an umpire
• Play by Thornton Wilder set in the fictional community of Grover’s Corners
• One name for the black-and-white North Atlantic seabird Alca torda
• Italian form of the name Joseph
• The longest-running programme with the same presenter in TV history
• A large pill used in veterinary and clinical medicine
• Nikos ___, Greek composer whose works include the ballets The Beauty with the Rose and The Sea
• Bee Gees song that was the US number one single for over two months in 1978
• Actor who played the title role in the 1946 film The Jolson Story
• A large breed of domestic fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs
• Hydrocarbon produced by the catalytic hydrogenation of naphthalene
• 1972 chart-topping single by Lieutenant Pigeon
• Song from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms that has been recorded by over 600 artists
• Kurt ___, composer of the music for The Threepenny Opera
• See 37
• See 30
• 2004 album by Duran Duran
• Horse that won the 2009 2,000 Guineas, Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
• Actress whose films include 21 Grams, The Ring and King Kong
• Paul Neal ___, American oil well firefighter who was known as “Red”
• Commune in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d’Or department in eastern France noted for its Burgundy wine

Down Clues

• Constellation also called the Great Bear
• A soluble readily fusible white mineral also known as tincal
• African country whose capital is Monrovia
• Egyptian actor whose films include Doctor Zhivago, Funny Girl and Lawrence of Arabia
• In Irish mythology, the daughter of the god of the sea, Manannán mac Lir
• Johnny Cash’s biggest US hit single
• 1608 tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the life of a legendary Roman leader
• B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in war
• 1989 legal suspense thriller by John Grisham
• Aromatic deciduous tree of North America, with three-lobed leaves and dark blue fruits
• Brazilian-born Croatian international footballer at Arsenal from 2007 to 2010
• C Auguste ___, fictional detective created by Edgar Allan Poe in The Murders in the Rue Morgue
• Name for the infinity symbol
• The continuance of a lottery jackpot
• Carl ___, Danish composer whose works include Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”
• Russian space launch vehicle that had its final flight on 26 December 2019
• Asiatic tree of the genus Pogostemon, the leaves of which yield a fragrant oil
• Iceland’s fifth-largest municipality, nicknamed the “Capital of North Iceland”
• Stage name of Herbert Khaury, best known for his rendition of Tiptoe Through the Tulips
• Boy George’s surname
• Genus of plants whose sole member is the California pitcher plant
• Actress whose film roles include Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie
• Name for helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon
• American blues guitarist and singer known as “The Velvet Bulldozer”
• ___ and the Oxen, poem by Rudyard Kipling first published in Debits and Credits in 1926
• The state or condition of having bad breath
• Evil hypnotist in George du Maurier’s 1894 novel Trilby
• In music, a continuation of a note or rest beyond its normal length
• Reference book published since 1849 by A & C Black
• Drink made by mixing sour wine or vinegar with water and herbs that became an everyday beverage for the Roman army
• The fruit of the oak tree
• Rudi ___, German cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España