Jumbo General February 25, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 11 Across, 31 Across and 40 Across? Connection from #712 Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Del Shannon had the first name Charles

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Crossword GK Jumbo 713 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 25, 2023

Across Clues

• Croatian footballer who in 2018 became the first player other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d’Or in more than a decade
• Welsh poet and essayist whose works include Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Under Milk Wood
• Former penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, California
• Country that gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993
• The European flatfish Scophthalmus maximus
• Town in the Piedmont region of Italy listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018
• Country whose capital is Thimphu
• See 53
• Comedy writer who co-wrote Father Ted and created The IT Crowd
• Hermann ___, Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for developing a projective test using inkblots
• A group or series of nine
• Actress who starred in the 1983 film Flashdance
• City in Michigan nicknamed Motor City and Motown
• Port in SW Iran, on an island in the Shatt-al-Arab
• Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy, whose seven extant plays include the Oresteia trilogy
• The capital of Greece
• See 21
• Puerto Rican professional boxer who won world titles at Super Featherweight, Lightweight and Light Welterweight between 1983 and 1992
• Dog breed to which Snoopy belongs
• A deciduous North American tree with aromatic leaves and bark
• Port at the easternmost point of Brazil on the Atlantic
• Popular hymn tune by John Hughes often erroneously called Bread Of Heaven
• Member of the Brassicaceae family also known as Japanese horseradish
• The holiest city of Islam
• The largest island in the Mediterranean
• Formula One racing driver who won the first of his seven World Championships in 1994
• 1980s TV comedy series that starred Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Siobhan Redmond and Emma Thompson
• 1993 film starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, based on a 1960s TV series
• The chief liturgical books of the Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches

Down Clues

• Maggie ___, heroine of George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss
• City that was the childhood home of Jesus
• L S ___, English artist noted for his paintings peopled with human figures often referred to as “matchstick men”
• Leader of the Oglala Lakota who took up arms against the US Federal government, leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876
• ___ IV, name of Nicholas Breakspear as the only English pope
• 1748 epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled the History of a Young Lady
• Play by William Shakespeare featuring the characters Prospero and Miranda
• Much-parodied 1930 painting by Grant Wood
• City in Cheshire on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales
• Welsh rugby club that plays at The Gnoll
• Unit of weight equal to 14 pounds
• The innermost of two membranes enclosing an embryonic reptile, bird or mammal
• Latin-American ballroom dance with small steps and swaying hip movements
• The ancient Greek underworld and the abode of the god of the same name
• The title character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
• 1977 Derek Jarman film starring Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson and Toyah Willcox
• South African writer and political activist awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature
• See 36
• The simultaneous discharge of artillery or firearms
• 1985 film starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly
• The capital of “15 Across”
• Dutch painter whose works include The Garden of Earthly Delights
• 1942 Michael Curtiz film that won three Oscars, including Best Picture
• 1957 single by The Coasters chosen by Paul McCartney as one of his Desert Island Discs in 1982
• 1937 MGM film adaptation of a 1928 stage musical of the same name, but with most of the Broadway score replaced with new songs by Cole Porter
• Seaside town in North Somerset whose pier opened in 1869
• Flat oven-baked Italian bread which may be topped with herbs or other ingredients
• Card game on which Edmond Hoyle wrote A Short Treatise in 1742
• Oil-rich city in Riau province on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia
• A ship such as the Pequod in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick
• See 33