Jumbo General August 12, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 19 Across and 43 Across? Connection from #736 Meld, Waterloo and Pebbles are horses that won the One Thousand Guineas

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Crossword GK Jumbo 737 by Eimi posted on Saturday, August 12, 2023

Across Clues

• Best Actress Oscar nominee for The Collector
• Royal elf created by J R R Tolkien and played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film series
• Metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive
• Temperature scale in which the melting and boiling points of water are 0 and 80 degrees respectively
• Shrub of the genus Elaeagnus with an olive-like fruit
• A thin slice of meat, usually veal, coated with egg and breadcrumbs and fried
• England football manager at Euro 96
• Alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water, usually with spices added
• 1989 Australian thriller film starring Sam Neill, filmed around the Great Barrier Reef
• Island state in the Indian Ocean whose capital is Port Louis
• The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the redemption of foreign bills of exchange
• Rock group in which Jools Holland came to fame as a keyboard player
• Song with which Sam Ryder represented the UK at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest
• African country whose capital is Nairobi
• Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan
• Horny protuberance on a horse’s fetlocks
• Horse that Bob Champion rode to victory in the 1981 Grand National
• Legendary British city in Arthurian legends that is the home of Elaine
• Dutch city, site of a 1944 battle during Operation Market Garden dramatised in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far
• Drummer whose ‘Five’ topped the UK singles charts in January 1964 with Glad All Over
• Greek hero who wandered for ten years after the siege of Troy
• Annual Asian plant, Cannabis sativa, whose tough fibres are used to make canvas and rope
• Captain of the England cricket team for 45 Test matches from 1999 to 2003
• 1947 novella by John Steinbeck whose central character is called Kino
• BBC TV sitcom set in a small-town café in Nazi-occupied France during WWII
• A colourless oily pungent poisonous liquid used in the manufacture of dyes, plastics, pharmaceuticals and explosive
• The European flatfish Pleuronectes platessa
• Lead singer of Tyrannosaurus Rex, later T Rex
• Debut single by The Honeycombs that topped the UK chart in 1964

Down Clues

• A team sport of Native American origin
• Fantasy world created by C S Lewis
• English actor who starred in the sitcoms Doctor in the House and Mind Your Language
• The capital of the former province of West Pakistan
• Orphan who is Miss Bates’s niece in Jane Austen’s novel Emma
• An aromatic compound derived from phenol found in coal tar and creosote
• Former National Hunt jockey who was Champion Jockey eight times (including one title shared with John Francome)
• Rupert Brooke poem that begins “If I should die, think only this of me”
• An area of interlocking basalt columns in County Antrim, the result of volcanic eruption
• Supreme commander of a fleet or navy
• A squirrel’s nest
• Actor, singer and comedian who played the title role in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen
• Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet or comet where it is closest to or furthest from the sun
• Dr Seuss character, played on screen by Jim Carrey in a 2000 film
• Cocktail originally served at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix
• 1989 film starring Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Field, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah
• A fast German vessel carrying guns and torpedoes in World War II
• The oldest city in Germany
• 2000 film that starred Jamie Bell in the title role
• Dance troupe who made their debut on Top of the Pops in 1968
• English rap music project led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner
• English singer, songwriter and model who released her eponymous debut album in 2017
• American singer-songwriter best known for the song Walking in Memphis
• Small fort or earthwork, especially to defend a bridge, pass, etc.
• An oriental pipe also called a hubble-bubble
• Swedish aerospace and defence company that began manufacturing cars in 1945
• A venomous snake of the family that includes the cobras, coral snakes and mambas