Jumbo General December 23, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 15 Across, 36 Across and 56 Across? Connection from #755 Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D W Griffith co-founded United Artists

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Crossword GK Jumbo 756 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 23, 2023

Across Clues

• Singer who was first to have a Christmas number one
• A car with an engine that has been radically modified to produce increased power
• Polish river that flows northeast to join the Oder near Brzeg
• 1965 top ten hit single for The Four Seasons
• Salford-born actor whose film breakthrough was in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Ronald ___, artist and cartoonist, and creator of the Saint Trinian’s school
• The sequence of events involved in the development of an individual organism
• The Greek word for goddess
• Solid material found in rocks, producing hydrocarbons similar to petroleum when heated
• City of NE Spain on the river Ebro, formerly capital of Aragon
• A sacred word or syllable used as an object of concentration for meditation
• Michelin-starred French chef named the Best Female Chef by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2011
• In the Eastern Christian Church, blessed bread distributed to members of the congregation after the liturgy
• 1963 film in which Dustin Hoffman plays Benjamin Braddock
• French city that is capital of the Eure-et-Loir department
• The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
• Scottish character actor who played the headmistress in the first two St Trinian’s films
• Synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 107
• British overseas territory situated to the north-west of Jamaica
• A US coin worth five cents
• French title (translated as Against the Grain) of a 1884 Joris-Karl Huysmans novel
• A pickle of Indian origin, made from fruit, vinegar, spices, sugar, etc
• City in Piedmont famed for its sparkling wine
• Region of the soil in contact with the roots of a plant
• The outer distal bone of the tarsus
• English actor whose real name is Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
• Style of architecture much used in the 9th-12th centuries, characterised by rounded arches and massive masonry wall construction
• An official of the College of Arms ranking above a pursuivant
• Marcel ___, French novelist best known for À la recherche du temps perdu
• South African city besieged by Boers for four months 1899-1900

Down Clues

• The largest French-speaking city in Belgium
• The chief gods of Norse mythology dwelling in Asgard
• 1956 Carol Reed film starring Burt Lancaster as a crippled circus performer
• ___ (Start the Dance), 1994 Prodigy Top Ten hit
• The technical term for earache
• Surname of one of the original three families in Neighbours, with the Ramsays and the Clarkes
• 1974 John Carpenter comedy sci-fi movie
• Range that shelters most of Libya’s Berber-speaking population
• 1975 number one single by 10cc featuring a 256-voice “virtual” choir
• Former Australian wildlife expert who was killed in 2006 by a stingray barb
• Small biting insect commonly found near stagnant water
• Max ___, German artist who married artistic patron Peggy Guggenheim in 1942
• Plant of the genus Buphthalmum with daisy-like flower heads
• The capital of South Australia
• The most popular cheese in the United Kingdom
• The title of Charles Dickens’ last completed novel
• The Japanese decorative art of flower arrangement
• American rapper born Stanley Kirk Burrell in 1962
• A cocktail of gin and vermouth
• Religious sect founded in New York in 1966 with core beliefs based on Indian scriptures
• 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in the title role
• Fragile mosquito-like dipterous insect of the family Chironomidae
• Style of furniture belonging to the late French rococo and early neoclassicism
• Tennis tournament won by Italy in 2023 for the first time in 47 years
• Apache chieftain who was captured in 1886
• In Greek mythology, the poet and lyre-player who married Eurydice
• David ___, Bradford-born painter considered to be one of the most influential artists of his time
• Character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who is in love with Lysander
• Old Testament book about a Jewish scribe and priest who was instrumental in restoring the Jewish scriptures and religion to the people after the return from the Babylonian Captivity
• A broom made of a bundle of twigs tied to a handle
• The preferred term for ‘Eskimo’ in North America