Jumbo General June 17, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 22 Across, 33 Across and 48 Across? Connection from #728 Christchurch, Canterbury and Kidderminster are on a River Stour

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Crossword GK Jumbo 729 by Eimi posted on Saturday, June 17, 2023

Across Clues

• Series of TV dramas about a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars created by Bernard Cornwell
• Franco-German theologian, organist, philosopher and physician who received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
• A variety of lettuce with a long slender head and crisp leaves
• ___… with Jools Holland, British music TV show first broadcast in 1992
• Accessory used in a petrographic microscope to focus and enlarge a figure
• Best-selling 1913 children’s novel by Eleanor H Porter
• Level 42’s biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the UK singles chart in 1987
• Fruit of the rosaceous tree Pyrus communis
• A supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War
• Animated US TV series set in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas
• Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Search, A Place in the Sun and From Here to Eternity
• Cud-chewing Andean artiodactyl mammal similar to the llama
• In The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Antonio’s friend, who is in love with Portia
• The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
• 1980 American spoof disaster movie starring Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty
• Metal whose chemical symbol is Ag
• English composer, conductor, and pianist whose works include The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
• Controversial author whose novel Midnight’s Children won the Booker Prize in 1981
• The capital of the British Virgin Islands
• American actress seen as Carolyn Muir in the sitcom The Ghost & Mrs Muir
• Region of New Zealand’s North Island whose major centre is the city of Hamilton
• Sea connecting the Atlantic and Arctic oceans
• The plant Genista hispanica
• See 41
• The hardy widely-cultivated annual grass Secale cereale
• Author of the novels Sinister Street and Whisky Galore
• See 18

Down Clues

• The bushy leguminous plant Cicer arietinum, cultivated for its edible seeds
• The capital of Brazil since 1960
• Former England defender who joined Tottenham Hotspur as a trainee in 1997
• Blacklisted writer posthumously awarded the Academy Award for writing Roman Holiday
• Suite for piano composed between 1905 and 1909 by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz
• Chemical primarily responsible for the yellow color of urine
• Strong coffee made by forcing steam or boiling water through ground coffee beans
• A device that maintains a system at a constant temperature
• American actor who played the title role in the US police drama series McCloud
• Acronym used to describe aircraft with very short runway requirements
• Jamaican dancehall recording artist and producer whose surname is Henriques
• Roger ___, jockey who rode Psidium to victory in the 1961 Derby
• Fibrous protein found in the outer layer of the skin and in hair, nails, feathers, hooves, etc
• American city whose port is the busiest cruise ship passenger port in the world
• The state capital of Tennessee
• Highly venomous elapid snake of the genus Naja
• John Lennon’s second solo album
• A fine strong silky fabric
• English comedian, singer, songwriter, actor and musician who was flyweight boxing champion of the British Army in India
• Salford-born actor whose film breakthrough was in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• 1983 spy novel by Len Deighton succeeded by Mexico Set and London Match
• Goran ___, tennis player who is the only person to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard
• Arachnid of warm dry regions with a long tail terminating in a venomous sting
• The national emblem of Ireland
• Greek Cynic philosopher who carried a lamp during the day looking for an honest man
• Small rounded nodule or elevation, especially on the skin, on a bone, or on a plant
• Access to property granted by a landowner for payment, for example to allow a contractor access to a building site
• Country in Central America, on the Caribbean Sea, formerly known as British Honduras
• City in California incorporated in 1872