Jumbo General September 23, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10 Across, 28 Across and 55 Across? Connection from #742 Sam Cooke, Frankie Howerd and Claire Bloom changed the spelling of their real surnames

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Crossword GK Jumbo 743 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 23, 2023

Across Clues

• 2000 film starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson
• American actress who became Princess consort of Monaco in 1956
• Saracens assistant coach who won 64 caps for the Scotland (14 as skipper)
• British dish that was one of the starters on the menu at the Fawlty Towers
• Large open space on the border of Berkshire and Surrey that is home to the Scout camp WINGS every five years
• Superior, Huron, Erie, Ontario and Michigan, collectively
• Dorset village noted for its priapic chalk Giant
• Swiss painter and etcher who was a founder member of der Blaue Reiter
• A lightly spiced cured bacon from Italy whose name literally means “little belly”
• Nickname of Australian jockey Arthur Edward Breasley
• American boxer who in 2011 became the oldest man to win a world title
• Sultanate in NW Borneo whose capital is Bandar Seri Begawan
• See 15
• See 16
• Horse that won the 1952 Derby
• Doctor in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation
• 1985 French film directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert
• Cooking term meaning covered with browned breadcrumbs and/or cheese
• Title of the fifth series of The Wind in the Willows on ITV
• See 20
• English novelist who wrote the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen
• America’s “City of Brotherly Love”
• American anthropologist whose works include Coming of Age in Samoa
• Member of a group of outlaw cowboys whose brother Billy was killed in the Gunfight at the OK Corral
• Scientist who studies individual celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
• The first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight

Down Clues

• Brittle form of plastic made from formaldehyde and phenol, developed in New York in 1907
• American singer and songwriter who was Bobby Hatfield’s partner in The Righteous Brothers
• River on which Florence, Empoli and Pisa stand
• Daniel ___, Irish politician known as “The Liberator”
• The biggest municipality in southern Iceland
• 1974 Top 10 hit written and performed by Billy Swan
• Historical county occupying almost a quarter of the total area of Northern Ireland
• A small ape of the genus Hylobates inhabiting forests in S Asia
• ___ Scott Thomas, English actress whose films include Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient
• The site of St Paul’s Cathedral in London
• Large genus of approximately 150 species of broadleaf evergreens in the family Malvaceae that includes the flowering maple
• Brightest star in the constellation Cygnus
• In many parts of South Asia, a series of steps leading down to a river
• The second eldest of the Gorgons in Greek mythology
• Mexican tortilla that is toasted or deep fried
• Unit of weight of silk, rayon or nylon thread, usually used as a measure of the fineness of stockings or tights
• A large deer, Rangifer tarandus, of Arctic regions of North America
• Brazilian-born former Arsenal footballer who made his debut for Croatia in 2004
• Gadoid food fish of the genus Merluccius
• Another name for potassium carbonate
• Visual guessing game usually played in families with young children
• Jukebox musical based on the songs of Take That
• Protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon
• Style of jazz associated with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
• A Spanish sparkling wine similar to champagne
• An obsolete form of the lute with two necks
• Formal or literary word for swimming
• Series of four vampire-themed novels by Stephenie Meyer
• Former Liverpool and Israel defender killed in a motorcycle crash in 2010
• See 2
• A German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II
• A ship, lorry or other form of transport designed to carry refrigerated cargo
• “___ Homo”, phrase uttered by Pontius Pilate that is Latin for “Behold the Man”
• The county town of County Kildare in the Republic of Ireland