Jumbo General January 07, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 16 Across, 19 Across and 53 Across? Connection from #705 Leo McKern, Rex Harrison and Elton John had the first name Reginald

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Crossword GK Jumbo 706 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 07, 2023

Across Clues

• French composer best known for the opera Carmen
• Salman Rushdie’s third novel, published in 1983
• A large, four-legged walking robot introduced in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back
• Area of North Bristol with a reputation for being bohemian
• 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature Philip Marlowe
• 1974 film directed by Ted Kotcheff starring Gregory Peck as Arch Deans
• A popular red or white wine from southern Burgundy
• 2001 Robert Rodriguez film starring Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara
• Director whose films include Flatliners, The Client and Phone Booth
• 2000 Farrelly Brothers comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger
• Logic-based number-placement puzzle whose name means “single number”
• Group best known for their 1978 single Another Girl, Another Planet
• In thermodynamics, the result of an irreversible process in which energy transforms from an initial form to a final form
• The most sacred place of worship in an ancient temple from which the laity was prohibited
• American actress who won a record four Best Actress Oscars
• Film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1989
• 1976 film for which Peter Finch won a posthumous Best Actor Oscar
• 20th-century war photographer and photojournalist born Endre Erno Friedmann
• Former South African rugby player who scored the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final
• A hit single for Sister Sledge in 1979, 1984 and 1993
• 2009 single by the Fray that reached number 7 in the Billboard Hot 100
• In the Old Testament, the second son of Judah who was killed by God for spilling his seed on the ground
• The third-largest city in Israel
• 1922 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee and Nita Naldi

Down Clues

• Jewish princess who asked for the head of John the Baptist as a reward for her daughter Salome’s dancing
• Country whose capital is Baku
• Inflammation of the middle ear
• Arthur ___, American tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1975
• A unicorn-like Pokémon that evolves from Ponyta
• Wild West outlaw killed by Robert Ford in 1882
• Site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics
• Gemstone variety of the mineral corundum when it is a colour other than red
• The musteline mammal Mellivora capensis, also called a honey badger
• Freshwater fish capable of generating powerful shocks
• Arrigo ___, Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer who wrote the opera Mefistofele
• Steve ___, American actor seen as Enoch “Nucky” Thompson in the TV series Boardwalk Empire
• City in Zhejiang province, China, 25 miles west of Ningbo
• County whose administrative centre is Ipswich
• An embroidered vestment believed to resemble an apron with shoulder straps, worn by priests in ancient Israel
• Sir Jacob ___, American-born sculptor who became a British citizen in 1911
• Company best known for dehydrated stock and soup that was founded in Germany in 1838
• Joseph ___, President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001
• A 1910 adventure novel by John Buchan
• Member of the Black Eyed Peas born Jaime Luis Gomez in 1975
• Actor and broadcaster best known as the presenter of Juke Box Jury on BBC TV between 1959 and 1967
• 1801 oratorio by Joseph Haydn
• Dutch city associated with a treaty that led to the creation of the European Union and the Euro
• Cat Stevens’s first single, released in 1966
• Nontechnical name for a negative pressure ventilator
• St Johnstone goalkeeper who broke the club appearances record in April 2009
• A Japanese paper or silk wall hanging with a picture or inscription on it and a roller at the bottom
• A fast-moving pelagic cephalopod mollusc with a torpedo-shaped body
• In the Roman calendar, the ninth day before the ides of each month
• A pinniped mammal of the family Otariidae or Phocidae