Jumbo General September 30, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 28 Across, 33 Across and 50 Across? Connection from #743 Grace Kelly, Bernard Hopkins and Margaret Mead were born in Philadelphia

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Crossword GK Jumbo 744 by Eimi posted on Saturday, September 30, 2023

Across Clues

• American tennis player who won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her career, including eight singles titles at Wimbledon
• In South Africa, a camp, especially one defended by a circular formation of wagons
• Guitarist who joined The Bay City Rollers in 1972
• “Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked ___” (Cargoes, John Masefield)
• 1995 Walt Disney film based on the life of a Powhatan woman
• Whiskey distilled from a mash of corn, malt and rye, aged in charred oak barrels
• Independent agency of the executive branch of the US government responsible for the civilian space programme
• The philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct
• The sum of the first four twin prime pairs
• Musician whose first big hit, Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, was credited to Tubeway Army
• 1983 Stephen Sondheim musical inspired by a painting by Georges Seurat
• Fishing village on the Atlantic Coast of north Cornwall that is home to the sea-shanty singing group Fisherman’s Friends
• Character in the BBC sitcom Porridge played by Ronald Lacey
• Species of turtle native to the eastern and southern United States belonging to the monotypic genus Malaclemys
• The common European songbird Pyrrhula pyrrhula
• Lotus sports car built in the UK between 1976 and 2004
• The west wind
• Indonesian island whose capital is Denpasar
• The personification of luck in Roman religion, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche
• The first novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848, subtitled A Tale of Manchester Life
• 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier set around a pub in the middle of Bodmin Moor
• Former parliamentary constituency whose MPs included the writer Hilaire Belloc
• Saint best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate)
• 1949 Arthur Crabtree film in which star Petula Clark sings It’s Not for the Want of Trying

Down Clues

• 1952 children’s novel by E B White about a pig named Wilbur
• Process in which ice sheets are created
• Star-studded 2006 film based on a 1997 George Plimpton book about Truman Capote
• A pale flame or phosphorescence also called friar’s lantern, ignis fatuus and jack-o’-lantern
• Condition in which the sufferer responds to visual stimuli without consciously perceiving them
• American band whose song Greenback Boogie is the main theme song of the TV series Suits
• Nickname of Sir Henry Percy
• Zimbabwean tennis player who won the men’s doubles at the 1994 French Open partnering Jonathan Stark
• The most northerly of the Channel Islands
• German leader of the Protestant Reformation excommunicated and outlawed by the Diet of Worms in 1521
• Building in Berlin in which assembly of the Weimar Republic met until its destruction by fire in 1933
• Island of Indonesia whose capital is Jakarta
• Long-running BBC documentary series whose theme music is Another Green World by Brian Eno
• Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice about the second wife of Juan Perón
• In Greek mythology, the fluid said to flow in the veins of the gods
• The first black winner of a Best Actor Oscar, for his role in Lilies of the Field
• Horse that won the 1968 Grand National
• Isle of Wight seaside resort that boasts the world’s oldest seaside pleasure pier
• American cartoonist best known as the creator of Dick Tracy, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977
• Irish writer whose only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray
• American actor who played Lt Mike Stone in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco
• Song that gave Marie Osmond a top ten hit in both the US and the UK in 1973
• British girl group comprising Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhán Donaghy
• 1986 album by The The
• Essex-based London airport whose terminal building was designed by Foster Associates
• ___ Twine, incompetent conjuror who was one of Les Dawson’s characters
• A bitter crystalline alkaloid extracted from cinchona bark, the salts of which are used in malaria therapy