Jumbo General September 17, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 35, 41 and 55 Across? Connection from #689 Speed, Julia and Valentine are characters in Shekespeare’s play The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Crossword GK Jumbo 690 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 17, 2022

Across Clues

• Town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, that grew up round an abbey founded in 666
• Reinforced piece of body armour designed to resist knife attacks
• Ancient settlement in the modern Turkish province of Hatay associated with a battle in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in 333 BC
• American boxer who lost his WBA lightweight title to Ray Mancini in 1982
• The highest mountain in England
• A circular area, often containing a circle of stones or wooden posts, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages
• Rubens ___, Brazilian racing driver who competed in Formula One between 1993 and 2011
• Best Actress Oscar-winner in 1931 for Min and Bill
• Italian word for hair
• See 26
• Horse that won the 1979 Grand National
• Drug commonly known as aspirin
• American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a Number 1 hit with Runaway in 1961
• Hydrolytic enzymes also known as endolysins or murein hydrolases
• “Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre” by Claude Debussy
• Serious viral disease named after a village in Nigeria where it was first identified
• The plant Phaseolus coccineus, which has edible green pods
• Small projection on the anterior edge of the wing of a bird, also called a bastard wing
• 1997 novel by Edward Rutherfurd that spans two millennia
• Name of the final section of the River Alde in Suffolk, from just above Orford to the sea
• 1994 Woody Allen film starring John Cusack, Dianne Wiest and Chazz Palminteri
• The nearest planet to the sun in our solar system
• Daniele ___, Roma midfielder who won 117 caps for Italy between 2004 and 2017
• Former German monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Deutschmark
• 1996 film based on the life of pianist David Helfgott for which Geoffrey Rush won a Best Actor Oscar
• The main railway station in Bangkok, Thailand
• Turkey’s third most populous city, historically called Smyrna
• 2000 M Night Shyamalan film starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson
• Mexican boxer known as “El Alacrán” (the Scorpion) who was WBC Flyweight Champion 1969–70
• In J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a noblewoman of Rohan who describes herself as a “shieldmaiden”
• See 18
• 1974 Top Ten single by Rod Stewart

Down Clues

• Latin-American ballroom dance with small steps and swaying hip movements
• A nocturnal, two-headed giant in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
• Formula One team that won three Drivers’ Championships and one Constructors’ Championship with Jackie Stewart
• 1895 novel by Theodor Fontane whose title character is the 17-year-old daughter of a German aristocrat
• British singer-songwriter who topped the singles chart in 1992 with Sleeping Satellite
• Chemical compound with two hydroxyphenyl functionalities
• American jazz trumpeter and cornetist who played with Earl Hines, Clarence Williams, Bessie Smith, King Oliver and Chris Barber
• American quartet whose hits include Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Three Coins in the Fountain and Stranger in Paradise
• The capital of Pakistan
• Umbelliferous Old World plant, Sium sisarum, cultivated for its edible tuberous roots
• England football team manager between August 2006 and November 2007
• A stand or frame of wood on which a coffin rests
• Donald ___, actor who played the Bond villain Blofeld in You Only Live Twice
• Oman, for example, or Darfur, before its incorporation into Sudan
• Department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France named after a river that runs through it
• The largest city and municipality of Wallonia, Belgium
• Former Labour Foreign Secretary who succeeded Roy Jenkins as leader of the SDP
• Officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools, known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason
• The collective bacteria and other microorganisms in an ecosystem
• Album released by John Coltrane’s quartet in 1965
• 1938 ballet by Aaron Copland about an American frontier outlaw and gunman
• German synthpop group whose albums include A Secret Wish
• Actor who received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home
• 1995 sci-fi film directed by Christian Duguay based on the short story Second Variety by Philip K Dick
• In Norse mythology, the ash tree that was thought to overshadow the world
• Children’s TV series, 1972-92, whose characters included Bungle, Zippy and George
• Margaret ___, English novelist whose elder sister is A S Byatt
• The daughter of Icarius in Greek mythology
• Jan Hendrik ___, Dutch astronomer who gave his name to a cloud of comets
• French river that is a right tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris