Jumbo General February 04, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 17 Across, 30 Across and 47 Across? Connection from #709 The Big Sleep, Spy Kids and Blood And Sand all feature characters called Carmen

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Crossword GK Jumbo 710 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 04, 2023

Across Clues

• City in Staffordshire considered the home of the pottery industry
• “When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not ___” (Thomas Paine, Common Sense)
• Carl ___, German composer, conductor and pianist best known for his flute sonata Undine
• White crystalline substance that is the main constituent of tallow and suet
• City whose Gothic cathedral is the largest church in France
• A style of singing characterised by beauty of tone rather than dramatic power
• Merchant from the Venetian Republic who wrote Il Milione
• Town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, on the south bank of the River Mersey
• Terry ___, Welsh snooker player who won the World Championship in 1979
• Author of The Age of Innocence, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature
• The Life and Opinions of ___ Shandy, Gentleman, novel by Laurence Sterne published in nine volumes
• Town in Umbria that was the birthplace of St Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order there in 1208
• War horse of Napoleon I of France, named after an 1800 battle
• Singer and songwriter whose books included In His Own Write
• Hal ___, American film director whose films include Shampoo and Coming Home
• The largest satellite of the planet Neptune
• Real surname of the Italian painter Caravaggio
• Italy’s main port, the capital of Liguria
• Jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard and lyrics by Irving Mills
• Pete ___, men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000
• Winifred ___, Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in the 1950s
• Hasna ___, Moroccan runner who won an Olympic 800m silver medal in 2004 behind Kelly Holmes
• The 35th President of the United States
• Italian variety of chicory with purple leaves streaked with white that are eaten raw in salads
• Italian informal word for hello or goodbye
• Inflammation of a joint or joints characterised by pain and stiffness
• Italian daily newspaper whose name means “The Press”
• A richly seasoned stew of meat or poultry and vegetables
• Jason ___, Belgian international centre-back who was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018
• Port in the Republic of Ireland near the mouth of the River Boyne
• An ornamental pot or trough for plants
• In law, a writ ordering a person to be brought before a court or judge

Down Clues

• 1728 work by John Gay
• Progressive rock group centred on guitarist Robert Fripp
• An extinct language of ancient S Italy belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family
• Another name for the zodiac sign Capricorn
• Surrey town famous for its racecourse
• 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat following the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II
• The overtones of a fundamental note, as produced by lightly touching the string of a stringed instrument at one of its node points while playing
• Honorific title used in Tibetan Buddhism meaning “precious one”
• 1996 fantasy adventure film starring Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite and the voice of Sean Connery
• Fox companion of Sonic the Hedgehog
• Former Brazilian footballer who is president of La Liga club Real Valladolid
• In fencing, the stronger section of a sword blade, between the hilt and the middle
• The longest river in the Republic of Ireland
• City and comune in Lazio, Italy, that was originally a major site of the Sabine nation
• The art of training horses and riders
• Prime Minister of France, 1962-1968, and President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974
• American baseball player nicknamed “The Georgia Peach”
• Heinrich ___, German Nazi leader who was head of the SS and the Gestapo
• A winning point for a perfectly executed technique in judo
• English writer best known as the author of The Compleat Angler
• Welsh resort and university town in Ceredigion, on Cardigan Bay
• One of the five classical orders of architecture, along with Doric, Composite, Tuscan and Corinthian
• Leonard Cohen’s eleventh studio album, released in 2004
• 16th-century political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Family that includes ducks, geese and swans
• Coral island of Japan, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands
• Grazia ___, Italian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926
• Boy George’s surname
• A woody perennial plant smaller than a tree
• A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium