Jumbo General December 09, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 9 Across, 21 Across and 48 Across? Connection from #753 Capsicum, aubergine and tobacco belong to the nightshade family, Solanaceae

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Crossword GK Jumbo 754 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 09, 2023

Across Clues

• Ballroom dance in which the dancers change partners after circling in concentric rings
• The highest point in the Forest of Dean
• Best-known pseudonym of the British writer Rene Brabazon Raymond whose books include No Orchids for Miss Blandish
• Watery substance produced in the parotid, sublingual and submandibular glands
• Nickname of Bruce Springsteen
• Song that gave Norman Greenbaum, Doctor and the Medics and Gareth Gates number one singles in the UK
• Irish singer who represented the UK in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest with Jack in the Box
• 1974 film directed by John Carpenter
• 1995 film for which Kevin Spacey won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
• Card game for two played with 32 cards and king high
• Disease also called glandular fever
• 1985 song by Elton John about the Cold War
• Spherical collections of stars that orbit galactic cores as satellites
• Bob ___, jockey who won the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti
• Mathematical formulation used in cricket to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a match interrupted by weather, renamed to its current title in 2014
• Well-known song from Noël Coward’s 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet
• The capital of Costa Rica
• See 37
• French chemist who named both oxygen and hydrogen
• A fronded plant in the family Osmundaceae native to the Americas and eastern Asia
• 1931 Noël Coward play focusing on three decades in the life of the Marryott family and their servants

Down Clues

• The second most populous city in Oregon after Portland
• Ancient Greek city in SW Asia Minor famous for its school of medicine
• In philosophy, existence
• African country whose capital is Lilongwe
• Dog in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield
• The capital of Guadeloupe
• ___ Harold’s Pilgrimage, narrative poem in four parts by Lord Byron
• Country in central Europe whose capital is Bratislava
• Kent village associated with the myth of ‘The Haunting of Lady Vain’
• Son of King Edward III and father of King Henry IV of England
• The standard accent of Standard English in Great Britain
• A Hindu wandering holy man
• Pakistan’s longest river
• A stable isotope of hydrogen occurring in natural hydrogen and in heavy water
• Viking who became the first ruler of Normandy
• A wall painting done on dried plaster with tempera or pigments ground in limewater
• Translucent inflated seaweed of the genus Valonia
• The capital of Vietnam
• German city called Augusta Treverorum by the Romans
• The distinctive fleshy wattle that hangs from the top of the beak of the male turkey
• A disintegration of the surface of the skin or a mucous membrane resulting in a slow-healing open sore
• The extinct New Zealand bird Sceloglaux albifacies, also known as the Whekau
• Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington published in 1921
• The first Muppet other than Kermit to feature as the main protagonist in a Muppet film
• Ancient town in Egypt, on the Nile, just below the First Cataract
• The Latin name for Switzerland
• Island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d’Antioche strait
• Huge stone statue built by the ancient Egyptians with the body of a lion and the head of a man
• The terminal part of a stamen
• “Let not poor Nelly ___,” deathbed wish expressed by King Charles II
• Legendary Irish hero and bard of the 3rd century AD
• Italian river that rises in the Apennines and flows through Florence to the Ligurian Sea
• “___ Homo”, phrase uttered by Pontius Pilate at the trial of Christ that is Latin for “Behold the Man”