Jumbo General September 24, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 13, 28 and 53 Across? Connection from #690 London, Mercury and Farewell are nicknames of Haydn symphonies

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Crossword GK Jumbo 691 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 24, 2022

Across Clues

• American actress who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Boyhood
• The marsupial Myrmecobius fasciatus, found in Western Australia
• The capital of Hungary
• A typewriter typesize having 12 characters to the inch
• The coastal plant Eryngium maritimum, believed to be a strong aphrodisiac in Elizabethan England
• Informal name for a military policeman
• Town in Suffolk that is the headquarters of British horseracing
• See 42
• River in Greek mythology which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld
• In the Old Testament, the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau
• 1998 Mimi Leder film starring Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman and Robert Duvall
• A creature such as Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog video games
• Poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592-93, with a plot based on passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• American singer whose biggest hit was the number one single Singing the Blues
• Darts player nicknamed “The Crafty Cockney”
• German golfer who won the US Masters in 1985 and 1993
• Term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan
• A railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train
• US state known as the Hoosier state
• Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist whose albums include Dandruff, Velvet Donkey and Jammy Smears
• The fourth largest city in Croatia
• Reservoir on the Euphrates in Syria created by the construction of the Tabqa Dam
• A reversible fabric, usually silk or linen, with a pattern woven into it
• Popular tourist town in Sicily approximately midway between Messina and Catania
• Sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J R R Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
• Nocturnal mammal of the order Pholidota
• Spanish city that hosts the main campus of the Charles III University of Madrid
• 1980 single by Randy Crawford that reached number two in the UK chart

Down Clues

• Danish king of England associated with a legendary story of controlling the waves
• Scottish actor seen as Logan Roy in the TV series Succession
• Historically, the approximate area of land tillable by a yoke of oxen in one day
• City in Volusia County, Florida, that is the headquarters of NASCAR and the Grand American Road Racing Association
• Area on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City that was the birthplace of the Beat movement
• Constellation that contains the first magnitude star Capella
• Demi Moore’s first film as a director, a short starring her daughter Rumer Willis
• The supreme god of the ancient Greeks
• Earth’s southernmost continent
• The weight that must be carried by a horse in a handicap race
• Former Canadian international footballer who married Karren Brady in 1995
• Pale green transparent variety of the olivine chrysolite, used as a gemstone
• Generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of wood
• Opera in three acts by Tchaikovsky based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin
• Skin disease involving inflammation of the sebaceous glands
• 1939 western in which Marlene Dietrich performs the song See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have
• Mr L ___, council worker who demolished Arthur Dent’s house at the beginning of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Writer known by the pen name Saki
• The fruit of the tree Annona reticulata
• Arthur ___, French poet whose works include Une Saison en Enfer
• A large juicy yellow-skinned citrus fruit of the Caribbean
• French actress born Françoise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris in 1932
• Primate of the Cercopithecidae family of Old World monkeys
• 1972 Helen Reddy song that was the first number one on the Billboard chart by an Australian artist
• Country whose capital is Amman
• 1953 musical by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin
• Drummer in The Muppet Show band, Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem
• Name used in Australia and other places for the Syrah grape and wines
• A popular British bidding system in bridge named after a London club
• 1994 Michael Apted film starring Jodie Foster in the title role