Jumbo General December 10, 2022 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 26 Across and 58 Across? Connection from #701 Primrose, Victoria and Montgomery are names of the Larkin children in H E Bates’s The Darling Buds of May

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Crossword GK Jumbo 702 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 10, 2022

Across Clues

• 1957 film by David Lean based on a novel by Pierre Boulle
• 1982 song by Toto that reached number three in the UK singles chart
• Son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother
• Australian port that is the capital of Queensland
• British prime minister, 1940-45 and 1951-55
• A light yellow semi-hard smear-ripened cheese
• Ancient city on the coast of Asia Minor whose modern name is Izmir
• Single by Kylie Minogue that topped the UK singles chart in 1988
• German novelist whose works include the novella Death in Venice
• The capital of Zimbabwe, known as Salisbury until 1982
• 1941 Walt Disney film based on a children’s story by Helen Aberson and Harold Perl
• Cud-chewing South American mammal closely related to the llama
• Character in the TV series Cheers known as “Coach”, played by Nicholas Colasanto
• American psychedelic rock group whose 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida has sold more than 25 million copies
• Game in which one throws and catches a spinning top on a cord fastened to two sticks held in the hands
• Grass of the genus Triticum, widely cultivated for food
• Nigerian city that is capital of Oyo state
• 1943 Luchino Visconti film based on James M Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Name adopted by the boxer born Walker Smith Jr
• US state whose capital is Topeka
• One-movement orchestral work by Maurice Ravel used in Torvill and Dean’s gold medal-winning performance at the 1984 Winter Olympics
• British aristocrat and novelist who described Lord Byron as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”
• Fungal infection of the skin or nails also called tinea
• Poet and playwright whose works include The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral
• Insect with stinging larvae, named after a character in Greek mythology
• Scottish architect and artist who designed the Glasgow School of Art

Down Clues

• Bright metallic element whose atomic number is 72
• Sir Arthur ___, composer who was Master of the Queen’s Musick from 1953 to 1975
• 1968 biopic starring Vanessa Redgrave in the title role
• Italian dumplings made with semolina pasta or potatoes
• Arabic stringed musical instrument resembling a lute
• American rapper who died as a result of a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996
• German town associated with the 1870 dispatch from Bismarck that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War
• Asif ___, cricketer who captained Pakistan and Kent and went on to become a match referee
• Children’s story by Roald Dahl featuring the characters Mr Hoppy and Mrs Silver
• The capital of Afghanistan
• The traditional county town of Northumberland
• Burmese diplomat who was secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971
• Miguel ___, Spanish cyclist who was the first rider to win the Tour de France five times in a row
• Syncopated dance in duple time that originated in Cuba
• American R&B singer whose albums include My Way and Confessions
• Greek tragic dramatist whose plays include Hippolytus and The Trojan Women
• The world’s largest monolith, formerly known as Ayers Rock
• William ___, English artist whose works include the Marriage à-la-mode series of paintings
• See 7
• 1998 novel by Nick Hornby featuring the character Will Freeman
• Woodwind instrument that is the tenor of the oboe family
• Soldiers serving with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
• West Yorkshire city that is the birthplace of Frederick Delius and David Hockney
• The spiral-horned antelope Tragelaphus angasi
• Garment worn around the waist in Bangladesh and other Asian countries
• Constellation which contains the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel
• The main antagonist in the Super Mario video game franchise
• Thick dark liquid mixture prepared from coal tar, used as a preservative for wood
• A calculus in the urinary tract
• A group of languages of East Africa including Luo, Dinka and Masai
• Raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean
• In Greek mythology, a king of Thessaly, one of the Argonauts, who was married to Alcestis
• Mountain in the Bernese Alps, rising to a height of 3970m
• Primate found in Madagascar and surrounding islands
• 1920 novel by Colette whose title character’s real name is Fred Peloux
• Take It to the ___, the third single from the Eagles’ album One of These Nights, released in 1975
• An imperial measure of capacity, equal to four hogsheads
• American multinational technology corporation founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company