Jumbo General December 02, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12 Across, 23 Across and 43 Across? Connection from #752 Ellen Barkin, Jane Russell and Doris Day have played Calamity Jane in films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 753 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 02, 2023

Across Clues

• Rank of non-commissioned officer in the British army, just above private
• Genus of plants whose mild or pungent seeds are enclosed in a pod-shaped or bell-shaped fruit
• Waking ___, 1998 film starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan
• Scottish town that is the administrative centre of Clackmannanshire
• Cheshire market town whose football team are nicknamed ‘the Silkmen’
• The Promised Land of the Israelites
• Small woollen balls attached to a garment for decoration
• The outer extremity of a ship’s yard
• The terminal part of a stamen
• Tony ___, cyclist who is the only Irishman to win the Tour de France
• Plant known as an eggplant in North America
• Actress who played Jenna Wade in the TV series Dallas and Jane Spencer in the Naked Gun films
• Oliver ___, Swiss-born actor in films such as The Stud whose real surname is Freitag
• British economic historian whose chief works include The Acquisitive Society
• The last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England who was proclaimed, but never crowned, King of England in 1066
• 1984 hit single by Bryan Adams which was an even bigger hit when covered by Rage in 1992
• The second book of the Old Testament
• Board game that originated in India as Moksha Patam
• See 45
• A fine strong silky fabric
• Great Britain’s representatives at the Olympics, collectively
• ___ Maruyama, Japanese golfer who won the 2001 Greater Milwaukee Open in a play-off against Charles Howell III
• Product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana
• French actor and filmmaker nominated for an Oscar for playing the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac
• The first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815
• Wolf featured in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books
• Name given to several rivers in the South West of England
• Texan-born professional golfer and broadcaster, best known for winning the 1965 USPGA Championship
• A shore bird of the genus Haematopus

Down Clues

• English novelist best known for his children’s fantasy novels such as The Owl Service and Red Shift
• 1895 play by Oscar Wilde featuring the character Sir Robert Chiltern, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
• The poisonous white-flowered plant Aethusa cynapium
• 1980 album by XTC featuring the singles Generals and Majors and Towers of London
• See 47
• Independent republic in the Pacific comprising 33 islands including Banaba and the Gilbert and Phoenix Islands
• Robert ___, American author who created Jason Bourne
• Actor who played the title role in TV series Lou Grant
• A book containing a list of medicinal drugs with their uses, preparation, dosages, formulas, etc.
• Film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone that began with First Blood in 1982
• Seaside resort, on the north coast of Wales overlooking the Irish Sea, that hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1910, 1947 and 1995
• Fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
• A plant that has leaves in all seasons
• The Muse of love poetry in Greek mythology
• Fictional village in Ireland in which the John Ford film The Quiet Man is set
• English actress and model who found fame through a series of TV commercials for Campari in the 1970s
• 1944 MGM musical featuring the song All the Things You Are, composed by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
• A group or series of six
• City in Los Angeles that is the destination of the family in the 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine
• Katja ___, the most successful alpine skier from Germany, winning three Olympic gold and two bronze medals and the World Cup three times
• Actor whose TV roles include Simon Templar in The Saint and Lord Brett Sinclair in The Persuaders!
• Furniture item consisting of a low surface for kneeling and a rest for the elbows or books, for use when praying
• Group whose biggest hit, Vienna, was kept off the top of the charts by Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face
• Long-running Scottish detective TV series that originally starred Mark McManus in the title role
• The fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Hebrew calendar
• A large pill used in veterinary and clinical medicine
• American actor who played Dr Dennis Gant in ER and plays Dr Eric Foreman in House