Jumbo General November 26, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 18 Across, 24 Across and 52 Across? Connection from #699 Tony Blair, David Frost and Brian Clough have all been played by Michael Sheen on film

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Crossword GK Jumbo 700 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 26, 2022

Across Clues

• The lead singer of Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980
• Hangover remedy consisting of raw unbeaten egg, vinegar or Worcester sauce, salt and pepper
• In Greek mythology, a robber who put travellers in his bed, stretching or lopping off their limbs so that they fitted it
• English footballer who married Victoria Adams in 1999
• Brazilian footballer born Edson Arantes do Nascimento
• The state capital of Nebraska
• The first footballer to be honoured by a memorial service in Westminster Abbey
• The widening channel of a river where it nears the sea
• Emperor ___, stage name of DJ Mike Pasternak who joined Radio Caroline in 1964
• In Greek mythology, a king of Thessaly, one of the Argonauts, who was married to Alcestis
• Former footballer and manager nicknamed “Der Kaiser”
• Island that was the business centre of medieval and renaissance Venice
• Demi Moore’s first name at birth
• In snooker, a shot that goes into a pocket after striking another ball
• The ___ Average is a daily index of stock-exchange prices in America
• 1977 single and album by David Bowie
• Portuguese footballer who joined Manchester United from Juventus in 2021
• In Greek mythology, a king of Salamis who was father of Teucer and Ajax
• Old Testament character, in the Book of Numbers, who stayed behind with Medad and prophesied while 70 elders went to the tabernacle
• Portuguese footballer who was top goalscorer in the 1966 World Cup
• 1987 debut album by The Wedding Present
• Son of Parmenion who was a distinguished officer in the service of Alexander the Great
• A spiral-horned African antelope of the genus Tragelaphus
• 1994 film that was the directorial debut of Ben Stiller
• Fictional attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner in 1933
• Former footballer who managed Argentina from 2008 to 2010
• The last person to rule Egypt as a pharaoh

Down Clues

• ___ D’Annunzio, Italian ultra-nationalist, poet who was Prince of Montenevoso
• American composer best known for his Adagio for Strings
• German anti-Nazi theologian best known as the author of the poem First they came …
• Acronymn for an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target
• Actress who played Regan in the 1973 film The Exorcist
• Poem by Walter Savage Landor that begins “Ah, what avails the sceptred race!”
• Pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa and Babette’s Feast
• American actor nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Johnny Belinda
• Legal term which described the reversion of property to the feudal lord in the absence of legal heirs
• Mammals of an order characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws
• Ozzy ___, singer who originally found fame with Black Sabbath
• Old English heroic epic poem that survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex
• Subclass of Crustacea in which the body is enclosed in a transparent two-valved carapace
• Popular houseplant with stiff lancelike leaves
• The female of the ruff
• See 3
• ___ on the Landscape, 1975 novel by Tom Sharpe
• River, forming part of the border between Scotland and England, that enters the North Sea at Berwick
• 1963 number one single by Gerry & the Pacemakers
• A male bee whose sole function is to mate with the queen
• 1958 number one single by Connie Francis
• Best-known song from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
• City in whose cathedral St Thomas à Becket was murdered in 1170
• Comic strip created by Reg Smythe in 1957
• Early electronic musical instrument named after its Russian inventor
• See 7
• A rich cake of Middle Eastern origin consisting of thin layers of pastry filled with nuts and honey
• British physician and astrologer whose first almanac was published in 1699
• Oil, similar in scent to bergamot, produced from the blossom of the bitter orange tree
• Racing toboggan on which riders lie on their backs, descending feet first
• Acronym for an offence in Scotland that would be TWOC in the rest of the UK