Jumbo General November 18, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 10 Across, 27 Across and 42 Across? Connection from #750 Benny Hill, Craig David and Ken Russell were born in Southampton

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Crossword GK Jumbo 751 by Eimi posted on Saturday, November 18, 2023

Across Clues

• Fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet
• 1963 number one single by Gerry & the Pacemakers
• Tropical plant of the genus Sinningia with bell-shaped flowers
• British composer whose works include four symphonies and a 1939 Serenade for Strings
• Author of Tender Is the Night and The Great Gatsby
• See 24
• Viennese composer of operettas such as The Chocolate Soldier
• Village in Berkshire close to Windsor Great Park
• See 50
• The ___, 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting the view outside his sanatorium room window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
• A signal, such as a siren, indicating that an air raid is over
• Fictional detective created by Harry Blyth, using the pseudonym Hal Meredeth
• Cole Porter song from the 1930 musical The New Yorkers
• The last song recorded for Bob Dylan’s classic album Blonde on Blonde
• A period of play in polo
• Monica ___, tennis player who became the youngest-ever French Open champion at the age of 16 in 1990
• Former England under-21 striker who played 573 games and scored 113 goals for 14 different clubs
• Animated TV series whose title character was voiced by David Jason
• City in Jordan originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu
• Band founded by Marc Bolan in August 1967
• 1947 Powell and Pressburger film based on a 1939 novel of the same name by Rumer Godden
• Board game patented by Charles Darrow in 1935
• Song that gave Jim Reeves a posthumous UK number one hit in 1966
• Brazilian tennis player who won the French Open in 1997, 2000 and 2001

Down Clues

• The administrative centre of Essex
• French literary prize given to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”
• 1981 hit single for Rod Stewart from the album Tonight I’m Yours
• Seabird of the family Stercorariidae
• Pierre ___, French composer, conductor and pianist whose works include Pli selon pli
• What the heroine of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita described as “getting the rhyme wrong”
• German for ‘four’
• Red supergiant that is the second brightest star in the constellation Orion
• Inflammation of a sebaceous gland of the eyelid
• Maria ___, Italian educational reformer who evolved a method of teaching children
• Jordanian city with the second largest metropolitan population after Amman
• In prosody, metrical or rhythmic stress in verse feet, as contrasted with the stress accent on words
• Giuseppe Verdi’s opera whose best-known song is the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
• A specialised threadlike leaf or stem that attaches climbing plants to a support by twining or adhering
• The largest US state
• Kate & ___, US sitcom that starred Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin
• A blunt large-eyed needle used for drawing tape through openwork
• The skin of a peach or grape, for example
• Russian name traditionally given to girls born around Christmas
• Kent village two miles south of Maidstone famed for comical references to its Women’s Institute
• Home ground of Crystal Palace FC
• Verse drama by Thomas Hardy published in 1904, 1906 and 1908
• The principles of severe self-discipline, especially in the early Christian Church
• Genus of tall palms native to SE Asia with egg-shaped nuts
• Timon’s most jealous “friend” in Shakespeare’s play Timon of Athens
• US TV personality who was the first host of The Tonight Show, 1954–1957
• Charles ___, English screenwriter, producer and director whose films include A Handful of Dust and Where Angels Fear to Tread
• A special pack of cards used mainly for fortune-telling
• Legendary Irish hero and bard of the 3rd century AD
• In Greek mythology, a queen of Sparta who was the mother of Helen and Pollux by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan
• Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and animals by building an ark
• Elementary particle with a mass 207 times that of an electron