Jumbo General June 03, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12 Across, 29 Across and 37 Across? Connection from #726 Moonraker, Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever have theme songs sung by Shirley Bassey

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Crossword GK Jumbo 727 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 03, 2023

Across Clues

• Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796
• The winged goddess of victory in Greek mythology
• Henry ___, Parliamentarian general in the English Civil War who was Oliver Cromwell’s son-in-law
• The attribution of human form or behaviour to an animal or deity
• The capital of Costa Rica
• An Australian monitor lizard of the genus Varanus
• 1987 film based on the life of Ritchie Valens
• Literary magazine founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University
• American film director best known for The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia
• Billy Joel hit single from his 1978 album 52nd Street
• Country whose capital is Belgrade
• In Greek legend, the lover of Thisbe
• English singer and songwriter best known for her collaboration with Rudimental on Waiting All Night, which won the 2014 Brit Award for British Single of the Year
• 1987 album and single by George Michael
• American singer, songwriter and musician who joined The Byrds in 1968 and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with fellow Byrd Chris Hillman in 1969
• Sitcom spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show starring Valerie Harper in the title role
• Diminutive hero of several English folk tales whose name was used by Charles Stratton in P T Barnum’s circus
• Horse race for fillies held annually at Epsom since 1779
• Heroine of William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice
• See 52
• The time taken for fifty per cent of the atoms in a radioactive material to undergo decay
• Harry Potter’s snowy owl in the novels by J K Rowling
• Bobby “Boris” ___, American singer who co-wrote the 1962 hit single Monster Mash
• See 47
• The first president of Zambia
• The first president of Chile
• The capital of Canada
• Purpose-built rowing lake used at the 2012 Olympics
• American author, historian and Unitarian minister whose short stories include The Man Without a Country

Down Clues

• In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus
• Bulgarian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a lev
• French writer, designer and film director whose works include the novel Les Enfants terrible
• British New Romantic group, fronted by Steve Strange, best known for their hit Fade to Grey
• Australian singer-songwriter and actress who played Nina Tucker in Neighbours
• Phylum that includes the vertebrates and protochordates
• Plant also called the African lily
• See 20 Across
• Mountainous state of Austria whose capital is Graz
• 1953 novel by Ira Levin whose second cinematic adaptation, in 1991, stars Matt Dillon and Sean Young
• The language of the Aztecs
• The northernmost city in the United Kingdom
• Italian operatic composer whose works include Lucia di Lammermoor and La Fille du regiment
• Landlocked nation in Western Africa whose capital is Bamako
• 17th-century English dramatist and novelist whose works include the novel Oroonoko
• One hundredth of a Gambian dalasi
• Richard ___, winner of the individual three day event gold at the 1972 Olympics
• Colourless volatile highly-flammable liquid made by the reaction of sulphuric acid with ethanol
• Lake in Israel through which the River Jordan flows, also called Lake Tiberias
• Jamaican-born singer, songwriter and actress who sang the National Anthem at the opening of the Millennium Dome
• Common vernacular name for ferns of the genus Asplenium
• American actress in The Godfather and Rocky series of films who is the aunt of Nicolas Cage and Sofia Coppola
• Matti ___, Finnish ski jumper who won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Dolph ___, Swedish actor who played Russian boxer Ivan Drago in the film Rocky IV
• The small northern songbird Oenanthe oenanthe
• See 33
• 1953 musical by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin
• Harry ___, Australian aviation pioneer who co-founded a firm that built a long series of successful military aircraft
• Frederick ___, US composer of Brigadoon, My Fair Lady and Camelot, all with librettos by Alan Jay Lerner