Jumbo General June 10, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 27 Across and 54 Across? Connection from #727 Nike, Faith and Portia are 18th-century winners of the Oaks

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Crossword GK Jumbo 728 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 10, 2023

Across Clues

• The tree Aesculus hippocastanum, whose nuts are called conkers
• Any of helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon
• Dorset town, formerly known as Twynam, at which a priory was built in 1094
• Former Manchester United centre back sacked as manager of Newcastle United in October 2021 after their takeover by a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government’s sovereign wealth fund
• 1953 number one hit for both David Whitfield and Frankie Laine that was originally written (with German lyrics) as Mutterlein
• French painter noted for his Parisian street scenes who was born in the Montmartre quarter of the city
• The county town of Suffolk, on the estuary of the River Orwell
• Small town in the Moray council area of Scotland with three distilleries, including Strathisla Distillery
• Norwegian composer whose works include the incidental music for Peer Gynt
• Birthplace of the playwright Christopher Marlowe
• The small New Zealand tree Myoporum laetum
• 1970s BBC TV series starring Patrick Mower as Det Supt Steve Hackett
• Scottish economist and philosopher whose book The Wealth of Nations advocated free trade and private enterprise
• Ernst ___, Austrian physicist and philosopher who devised a system of speed measurement
• The edible part of a nut
• A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra
• Dutch explorer who led the first known European expedition to reach Van Diemen’s Land
• German city called Augusta Treverorum by the Romans
• Character from the Ghostbusters franchise originally referred to as Onionhead
• See 32
• Álvaro ___, Spanish defender who returned to Real Madrid from Liverpool in 2009
• American singer and actress whose single I Will Always Love You became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history
• French actress seen as Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale
• Welsh industrialist and social reformer who formed a model industrial community at New Lanark
• Australian “Unusualist” who performed a shadow play routine using Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World at the 2007 Royal Variety Performance
• Creature who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth until killed by the Athenian hero Theseus
• Town in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire in which postal pioneer Rowland Hill was born

Down Clues

• 1971 western starring Oliver Reed, Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen
• Standard opening of Roman proclamations now used to denote a papal address “to the City and to the World”
• English jockey popularly known as “The Long Fellow” who had 4,493 career wins, including nine Derby victories
• Title of Iranian kings including the Achaemenid dynasty which unified Persia
• A religious retreat or community in which a Hindu holy man lives
• A tau cross with a loop on the top, symbolising eternal life, that often appeared in Egyptian personal names
• A call in solo whist and other card games declaring a hand that will win no tricks
• The Singing ___, BBC TV serial written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon
• See 2
• Brazilian left-back who is the most decorated player in the history of Real Madrid
• Singer and songwriter of The Adverts, best known for their 1977 single Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
• Name shared by Top 10 hit singles by Free and Terence Trent D’Arby
• A room with walls that reflect sound
• Acronym for the United Nations Children’s Fund
• See 46
• Vessels and other objects made of baked clay
• American singer-songwriter best known for King of the Road
• What the computer acronym WAN stands for
• Mountain massif in the Kishtwar Himalaya of Jammu and Kashmir, India, comprising four peaks
• Leisure activity in which one might perform an ollie or a kickflip
• Dick ___, American tennis player who won the Wimbledon and Australian Open men’s singles titles in 1951
• A hard cheese named after a valley in Switzerland
• Name for a series of space missions launched by the Soviet Union, the first of which launched the first man-made object to orbit the Earth
• Method of restarting play in football after the ball has left the pitch at either side
• 1923 novella by D H Lawrence featuring the characters Nellie March and Jill Banford
• Former player who as Everton manager won the FA Cup, Football League and European Cup Winners’ Cup
• Noureddine ___, central defender who ended his career at Tottenham Hotspur in 2006 having won 115 caps for Morocco
• 1981 Warren Beatty film in which Jack Nicholson plays Eugene O’Neill
• Units in which electrical resistance is measured
• In India and the Caribbean, a type of unleavened bread