Jumbo General October 17, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 19, 23 and 48 Across? Connection from #693 Belgrade, Vienna and Budapest are on the River Danube

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Crossword GK Jumbo 694 by Eimi posted on Monday, October 17, 2022

Across Clues

• One of the sons of Noah, along with Ham and Japheth
• In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a standard direction
• The crop pest Delia radicum
• ___ Records, American record label founded in 1974, whose biggest selling recording artist was Whitney Houston
• The most north-westerly of the Canary Islands
• Stage name of Alison Clarkson, whose hits included Doin’ the Do
• Another name for the trepang or sea-slug, a food delicacy in China
• Clive ___, American author of thrillers featuring the character Dirk Pitt
• The local name for the River Thames at Oxford
• English poet best known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
• A wind of force 12 or more on the Beaufort scale
• Character played by Minnie Driver in the film Good Will Hunting
• See 31
• In Greek mythology, a Titan compelled to support the sky on his shoulders as punishment
• Compact car launched by Honda in 1972
• The fiancée of John Keats, played by Abbie Cornish in the 2009 film Bright Star
• The capital of Senegal
• A place where bees are kept
• A legendary Irish hero and bard of the 3rd century AD
• Ivan ___, Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov
• 1978 Top 10 hit for Funkadelic
• Department of SW France whose capital is Auch
• Small lake on top of the Black Forest mountain range in southwestern Germany
• African republic whose capital is Maputo
• Raymond ___, crime writer who created the private detective Philip Marlowe
• Word that forms part of the official names of Iran and Mauritania
• National Trust property in West Sussex in which H G Wells spent part of his boyhood, as his mother was housekeeper between 1880 and 1893
• 1967 Top 10 hit for The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• White powder, composed primarily of calcium phosphate, used in fertilisers, polishing compounds, and in making ceramics
• The capital of Peru

Down Clues

• 1892 farce in three acts by Brandon Thomas
• American stand-up comedian who co-hosted the 2022 Academy Awards with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes
• Epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869
• Luxury car launched by Opel in 1964
• See 7
• The tropical shrub Cajanus cajan, cultivated in tropical regions for its nutritious pealike seeds known as pigeon peas
• Weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens in which the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge were first published
• A flock of quails, for example
• 1881 novel by Thomas Hardy featuring the character Paula Power
• Instrumental by Mason Williams that won three Grammy Awards in 1969
• Oscar-nominated 2006 film featuring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett
• See 7
• US state that was the 19th admitted to the Union
• Character in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice in love with Shylock’s daughter Jessica
• A deep red transparent precious variety of corundum
• The capital of Kenya
• The shorebird Gallinago delicata
• 1979 play by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of Mozart and Salieri
• Studio album recorded by John Coltrane’s quartet in February 1965
• Cyprus resort that has become a ‘party capital’
• Historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921
• In Greek mythology, a Titan who stole fire from Olympus to give to mankind
• Coronation Street character played by Doris Speed from 1960 to 1983
• The original name for a nuclear reactor
• Scottish footballer nicknamed “The Tin Man” whose clubs included Rangers, Sevilla, Derby County and Birmingham City
• 25 April, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand
• See 39
• An immature form of many creatures that develops into a different adult form by metamorphosis
• See 34
• American singer-songwriter whose hits included Me and You and a Dog Named Boo