Jumbo General December 03, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17 Across, 25 Across and 47 Across? Connection from #700 Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer and Diego Maradona lifted the World Cup as captains

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Crossword GK Jumbo 701 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 03, 2022

Across Clues

• The title character of Dick King-Smith’s 1983 book The Sheep-Pig
• Tribe of Native Americans who live in the mountains of Arizona whose name means “people of the tall pine”
• 1971 number 1 single by Rod Stewart
• A line on a map connecting places of equal atmospheric pressure
• Capital of the Federated States of Micronesia since 1989
• The flowering plant Primula vulgaris
• The UK’s second female prime minister
• Nicolas ___, Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance noted for his complex polyphonic compositions
• Ancient Phoenician city that is the legendary birthplace of Elissa, or Dido
• Writer whose works include Up the Junction and Poor Cow
• A thick cut from the tenderloin of beef created for a French author and diplomat by his personal chef
• Australian state whose capital is Melbourne
• Phrase said by many characters in the Star Wars films
• African country that hosted COP27
• Greek philosopher who taught Aristotle
• Abbreviation for the oldest and largest animal welfare organisation in the world
• Hal ___, American film director whose films include Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Coming Home and Being There
• English poet whose 1944 collection The Glass Tower was illustrated by Lucian Freud
• Former Surrey and England captain who was Chairman of the England cricket selectors from 1982 to 1989
• Claude Joseph ___, composer of La Marseillaise
• Actress who appeared in 24 Carry On films beginning with Carry On Nurse in 1959
• Elisabeth ___, Best Actress Oscar nominee for the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas
• See 27
• Bernard ___, officer who successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein
• Lead guitarist of the rock band Queen
• Balkan region in which Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night is set
• Ancient Greek city on Mount Parnassus that was the site of the most famous oracle of Apollo
• Tilting train developed by Fiat Ferroviaria in 1969
• The study of correct or standard pronunciation
• US state whose capital is Columbus

Down Clues

• German boxer who was world heavyweight champion between 1930 and 1932
• Character played by Martin Sheen in The West Wing
• 1977 Walt Disney film based on a series of books by Margery Sharp
• Herbert A ___, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Jerome Karle
• Celestial object last seen in 1986
• Actor who played Steve McGarrett in the American TV series Hawaii Five-O
• Passerine bird of the crow family such as Pica pica
• The ___, 1879 novel by George Meredith featuring the character Sir Willoughby Patterne
• English actor who played the angel Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life
• A 1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
• A circle of prehistoric standing stones
• Missionary to China who inspired the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman
• Former European football competition whose first winners were Tottenham Hotspur
• Anglicised form of a Gaelic name that means “red”
• See 19
• Jacks, Queens and Kings, collectively
• Actress and TV presenter who was runner-up on the fifth series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
• Pierre ___, author of the plays Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro and La Mère coupable
• The capital of Togo
• The largest island of Japan
• 1995 cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
• Overnight passenger train between Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand that operated from 1975 to 2004
• Southeast Asian country whose capital is Kuala Lumpur
• A plant of the Hibiscus genus, especially Hibiscus moscheutos
• 34-mile-long volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean that is part of Norway
• A piece of cloth draped around the head to frame the face, worn by women in the Middle Ages or as part of the habit of some nuns
• Family name of the Marquess of Bath
• See 6