Jumbo General December 16, 2023 Answers
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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 23 Across and 43 Across? Connection from #754 Paul Jones, Dark Star and Cavalcade are Kentucky Derby winners
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Crossword GK Jumbo 755 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 16, 2023
Across Clues
- 1791 Mozart opera based on the life of a Roman emperor
- The second book of the Old Testament
- Canadian actress born Gladys Louise Smith in 1892
- Astronomical instrument or telescope mounting devised by George Airy in 1847
- American pianist and bandleader whose theme song was Artistry in Rhythm
- Ben ___, English sailor, winner of four Olympic gold medals, who is Team Principal, CEO and Skipper of INEOS Britannia
- Country whose capital is Baku
- Puppet created by Shari Lewis in 1957
- English actor, director and composer who won an Oscar for the Best Music in an Original Dramatic Score for the 1952 film Limelight
- William Schwenck ___, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Commune on the northern edge of the Pyrenees, capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
- The essential nutrient L-ascorbic acid
- François ___, French Renaissance writer whose best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Nickel steel alloy also known generically as FeNi36
- Irish DJ and TV presenter married to DJ Toddla T
- The root vegetable Apium graveolens rapaceum
- Phil Collins song from the film Buster that topped the US Hot 100 for two weeks in 1989
- Losing FA Cup finalists in 1984
- Song from Chess that gave Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson a Number 1 single in 1985
- Currency unit of Peru
- Director of the films The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance
- The traditional idealised rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry
- Friedrich ___, German geologist who developed a hardness scale for minerals
- Another name for the card game hearts
- Tragedy by Federico García Lorca first performed in Madrid in March 1933
- See 16
- The first British football team to win a European trophy
Down Clues
- Best Actress Oscar nominee for The Collector
- 2009 album by Carrie Underwood, her second to debut at Number 1 on the Billboard charts
- Royal Navy I-class destroyer that sank in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands on 1 September 1940
- Character in the Star Wars saga who becomes Darth Vader
- Petroleum distillate that boils above about 250 degrees Celsius
- Dorset river that rises in Alton Pancras and flows to Poole Harbour via Wareham Channel
- The capital of Albania
- Epic 1962 Western which follows four generations of a family as they move from New York state to the Pacific Ocean
- Fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe who is a member of the intergalactic enforcers known as the Starjammers
- The nest of a hare
- Horse that won the 2014 Derby
- Pastoral poem by John Milton published in 1645
- 1967 film by Luis Buñuel based upon a 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel
- Crystalline compound also called saltpetre
- The final opera by Richard Strauss
- An archaic name for brandy, meaning “water of life”
- Football team that appointed Bill Shankly as manager in December 1959
- Welsh progressive rock group evolved out of The Bystanders
- Small almond-flavoured cakes said to date back to Henry VIII’s court in 1525
- Nickname of the character played by Sophie Aldred in the TV series Dr Who
- Opera by Jacques Offenbach whose most famous aria is the Barcarolle, from Act 2
- See 4
- See 36 Across
- Eric ___, British author whose novels include The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear
- With Atropos and Lachesis, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology
- The capital of Tanzania
- In Greek mythology, a gorgon beheaded by Perseus
- Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a book by T S Eliot