Jumbo General May 13, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 30 Across, 38 Across and 48 Across? Connection from #723 Richard Harris, Sean Connery and Clive Owen played King Arthur in films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 724 by Eimi posted on Saturday, May 13, 2023

Across Clues

• A 1976 album by Joni Mitchell
• Capital of the Loiret département in France
• Israeli actress and model who played the title role in the 2017 film Wonder Woman
• T S Eliot poem that contains the lines “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper”
• 1998 animated film featuring the voices of Kevin Spacey, Madeline Kahn and Roddy McDowall
• Primary villain in the Robin Hood stories
• Wading bird with a booming call
• Sultanate in SE Arabia whose capital is Muscat
• One of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers, along with Porthos and Aramis
• The brightest star in the sky
• Egypt’s chief port
• English sailor and three-times Olympic gold medallist, in the Laser class in 2000 and the Finn class in 2004 and 2008
• 1999 album by Carlos Santana that won nine Grammy Awards
• Tree or shrub of the genus Crataegus, also called may
• Colourless radioactive element with the atomic number 86
• A mixture of pollen and nectar also called ambrosia
• Actor born Carlos Irwin Estevez
• Composer of the music for Show Boat
• A direct vote by the electorate of a state, region, etc, on some question of usually national importance
• An early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two people played with a reduced deck
• Brand of instant mashed potatoes whose 1970s commercials were voted television advert of the century by Campaign Magazine
• 1982 US science fiction film starring Jeff Bridges, re-released in 2011
• Former province of Czechoslovakia whose Czech name is Cechy
• A cyclonic tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean, mentioned in Acts of the Apostles and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
• A creeping plant of the mint family with bluish-purple flowers
• The mountain maple, a species native to North America
• 2015 musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about an American Founding Father
• Tommaso ___, Italian composer of the Neapolitan School who served as music director for Catherine the Great of Russia from 1768 to 1775
• Chinese tree cultivated for its round edible fruits

Down Clues

• 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ
• 1978 single by Rose Royce that reached number 3 in the UK
• Surname of the Norwegian figure skater after whom the Axel is named
• Independent state in the SW Pacific whose capital is Honiara
• Variety of mandarin orange sometimes called an Algerian tangerine
• Another name for hemp
• English singer who came to prominence as half of the duo Yazoo
• Tropical American plant of the genus Tagetes
• Alternative rock band formed by Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson in 1989
• 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in the title role
• Latin Christmas carol that gave Steeleye Span a hit single in 1973
• English actress, singer and entertainer whose biggest chart hit was the 1967 top ten single Just Loving You
• 1999 film starring Chris O’Donnell and Renée Zellweger and featuring the acting debut of singer Mariah Carey
• Colorado ski resort featured in the film Dumb and Dumber
• A graduated scale shaped like a figure eight showing the daily declination of the sun
• Marcus ___, ally of Caesar, triumvir and afterwards enemy of Augustus
• African country whose capital is Khartoum
• The only footballer to have scored a hat-trick in all four English divisions, the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country at International level
• German high jumper who won the women’s Olympic title in 1972 and 1984
• The local representative of the king in a shire until the early 11th century
• A country wench in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Romeo’s cousin who tries to prevent violence between the Capulet and Montague families in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
• Motto of the Prince of Wales
• Saturday afternoon BBC2 children’s programme whose presenters included Brian Cant, Johnny Ball and Janine Sharp
• Egon ___, painter and draughtsman who was a leading exponent of Austrian expressionism
• Variety of tuna much used in Japanese cuisine
• See 7
• Nedum ___, Nigerian footballer at Manchester City who has become a TV pundit
• Island in the Pacific Ocean that is the largest and southernmost of the Marianas