Jumbo General April 15, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15 Across, 27 Across and 41 Across? Connection from #719 Tintin, Dennis the Menace and Charlie Brown all have a dog

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Crossword GK Jumbo 720 by Eimi posted on Saturday, April 15, 2023

Across Clues

• Greek philosopher who was tutor to Alexander the Great
• London football team whose home ground is Brisbane Road
• Dutch postimpressionist painter whose works include The Starry Night
• Fairy referred to in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet
• Avoirdupois unit of weight that is divided into 16 ounces
• The pipe on a set of bagpipes on which the melody is played
• 1963 Roy Orbison single featured in David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet
• Gait of a horse, faster than a walk, in which diagonally opposite legs come down together
• German consumer electronics manufacturer established in Nuremberg in 1945
• Ancient city of Sicily founded by Dionysius I of Syracuse as an outpost against the Carthaginians
• 1954 film starring Frank Sinatra and Doris Day
• 1923 collection of poetry by Khalil Gibran
• Social media platform founded in 2002 for hosting and organising gatherings and events for people and communities of similar interests
• People of NE India and W Myanmar whose festivals include the annual Hornbill Festival
• A leader of congregational prayer in a mosque
• Supposedly “manly” chocolate bar launched by Rowntree’s in 1976
• The world’s largest media conglomerate from 1990 to 2018
• Former England defender who captained Stoke City to a 4-0 win at Coventry City as he made the 800th appearance of his professional career in March 2023
• Island off Massachusetts that was formerly a centre of the whaling industry
• Earl of Mercia who was the husband of Lady Godiva
• Palestinian city under Egyptian administration from 1949 until occupied by Israel in 1967
• Flemish style of bicycle road race common in Western Europe
• A Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a set of hardwood plates over tuned metal resonators
• Arabic male name that means prosperity or long lived
• The brightest star in the constellation Boötes
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for the 1955 film Marty
• Iron Age hill fort in Dorset
• Devon port used as the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190

Down Clues

• US sitcom whose cast included Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Andy Kaufman
• A nobleman ranking below an earl and above a baron
• American jazz saxophonist known as “The Sound”
• American jockey who became the youngest jockey ever to win the US Triple Crown, riding Affirmed, in 1978
• German golfer who won the US Masters in 1985 and 1993
• Louisa May ___, US novelist best known for Little Women
• Another name for Aphrodite
• “Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha” in a novel by Miguel de Cervantes
• Lead singer of The Who
• Irish political party whose name translates as “we ourselves”
• Arthur Alexander song, subtitled Go to Him, covered by The Beatles on their 1963 debut album Please Please Me
• Giovanni Battista ___, Italian composer whose best known sacred work is his 1736 Stabat Mater
• 1999 film featuring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman, Salma Hayek and Chris Rock
• New Zealand bird generally believed to have become extinct by 1500 AD
• See 3
• Another name for potassium nitrate or saltpetre
• Song by Jerry Ragovoy and Jimmy Norman covered by both Irma Thomas and The Rolling Stones in 1964
• Latin phrase meaning ‘by or in itself or themselves’
• Director of the films A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and East of Eden
• Period of political liberalisation and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968
• Play by George Bernard Shaw about an officer of The Salvation Army
• Gemstone mined in Coober Pedy, Australia
• English singer whose top ten hits include Wouldn’t It Be Good, I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me and Wide Boy
• Italian fashion and leather goods company founded in Florence in 1920
• A flock of pheasants
• An unsegmented worm with a tough outer cuticle
• Singer and guitarist backed by the Heartbreakers who was one of the Traveling Wilburys
• Plant of the genus Pelargonium
• French city that was the ancient capital of Brittany
• A horse whose coat is sprinkled with white hairs
• Venue for the 1960 Olympics
• The capital city of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa