Jumbo General February 11, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15 Across, 21 Across and 48 Across? Connection from #710 Marco Polo, John Lennon and John F Kennedy have airports named after them

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Crossword GK Jumbo 711 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 11, 2023

Across Clues

• Presenter of the quiz show Ask the Family from 1967 to 1984
• Small North Yorkshire village that gave Harold Wilson his baronial name
• Former unit of illumination, equal to 10.764 lux
• Noble gas whose atomic number is 54
• The sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaea in Greek mythology
• American tennis player who won the men’s singles at Wimbledon in 1974 and 1982
• Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington published in 1921
• A kind of quartz, usually red in colour, used as a gemstone
• Vegetable of the onion family that is the national emblem of Wales
• A direct vote by the electorate of a state, region, etc, on some question of usually national importance
• Driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing
• Another name for Passover
• Town in Iraq, 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river
• US abolitionist leader hanged after leading an unsuccessful rebellion of slaves at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
• Peter ___, Irish actor who played the title role in Lawrence of Arabia
• The lungs, especially of sheep, bullocks and pigs, used for pet food
• Captain of Europe’s victorious 2010 Ryder Cup team
• François ___, the 21st President of the French Republic, serving from 1981 until 1995
• 2000 Number 1 single by Eminem featuring Dido
• The “city of dreaming spires”, according to poet Matthew Arnold
• Bird venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth
• Province of Canada whose capital is St John’s
• The outermost region of the sun’s atmosphere, visible as a faint halo during a solar eclipse
• An American or Canadian whose parents immigrated from Japan
• Australian golfer named CEO of LIV Golf Investments in 2021
• Song with which Abba won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest
• Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose works include Portrait of Dr Gachet and L’Arlésienne

Down Clues

• The largest city of the Comoros islands and capital since 1958
• Video game genre represented by such titles as Double Dragon, Street Fighter and Streets of Rage
• Mount ___, active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily
• The ribbon worn by members of the highest order of knighthood under the Bourbon monarchy, now denoting food prepared to a very high standard
• American athlete who broke Bob Beamon’s 23-year-old long jump world record at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo
• In the Old Testament, the second son of Judah, killed by God for spilling his seed on the ground
• Defender who won the last of her 96 caps for the Scotland women’s football team in a 1-0 win over Denmark in 2019
• 1988 film about clique at a fictional Ohio high school starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater
• The standard monetary unit of Thailand
• Discrimination on the basis of gender
• Des ___, Irish-born TV presenter who moved with his family to Brighton at the age of six
• Miguel de ___, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer best known for Don Quixote
• 1947 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II that was their fourth collaboration together
• The form of calcium carbonate existing in stalactites or stalagmites
• Silvery-white metallic element whose principal ore is bauxite
• Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow originally printed in the 1841 edition of Ballads and Other Poems
• Nontechnical name for the mandible
• Another name for Polaris
• Any of various minute unicellular organisms such as flagellates, ciliates, sporozoans, amoebas and foraminifers
• Name used in a common figure of speech to represent quickness
• In Greek mythology, the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra
• Austrian architect whose buildings include Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station, Vienna
• Italian painter of the Venetian school whose original name was Jacopo Robusti
• Alter ego of DC Comics character Chato Santana, played by Jay Hernandez in the 2016 film Suicide Squad
• ___ Hall, National Trust property in Norfolk that was formerly home to members of the Wyndham family
• In the US Navy, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank
• The marketplace in Athens, used for popular meetings
• The second most important river in Gabon after the Ogooue
• General Motors’ largest European brand
• The capital of Fiji
• Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and animals by building an ark