Jumbo General December 30, 2023 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 12 Across, 28 Across and 48 Across? Connection from #756 Albert Finney, Alastair Sim and Michael Caine have played Ebenezer Scrooge in films

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Crossword GK Jumbo 757 by Eimi posted on Saturday, December 30, 2023

Across Clues

• Scottish duo whose music was used for the musical Sunshine on Leith
• Common name for the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua
• Russian-born US aeronautical engineer who designed the first successful helicopter
• Welsh actor and director best remembered for his Oscar–winning performance in The Lost Weekend
• Controversial 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
• The brightest star in the constellation Scorpius
• An alias of the character Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings
• The derived SI unit of radioactivity equal to one disintegration per second
• Welsh boxer who died after fighting Lupe Pintor for his version of the World Bantamweight title in 1980
• Word that means ‘honey-sweet’ that is a description of a form of diabetes
• New Romantic band whose first single, To Cut a Long Story Short, was a top 5 hit in 1980
• Classic 1959 Howard Hawks Western starring John Wayne, Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson
• John ___, rugby union player who captained Australia a record 55 times
• Another name for the Greeks as an ethnic group
• Author of the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin
• The destroyer, a name given to the Devil in the Book of Revelation
• Best Actor Oscar-winner for his portrayal of Chief of Police Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night
• The historical name for Anatolia
• English artist noted for his paintings peopled with human figures often referred to as “matchstick men”
• The tallest mammal
• Irish singer-songwriter best known for his 2013 debut single Take Me to Church
• Mood of verbs used in giving orders, making requests, etc.
• Rock band whose hit singles included Don’t Dream It’s Over and Weather with You
• 1986 novel by William Goldman that was the sequel to his 1972 novel Marathon Man
• British novelist, poet, playwright best known for his novel Lord of the Flies

Down Clues

• 1977 American film written by Neil Simon for which Richard Dreyfuss won a Best Actor Oscar
• Abbreviation for a phrase that translates as “The Senate and People of Rome”
• Saïd ___, Moroccan runner who won the men’s 5000m at the 1984 Olympics
• Genus of large dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period whose name means “different lizard”
• Watchmaking company founded in the Swiss city of Le Locle in 1853
• The third most populous state of the US
• Strong coffee made by forcing steam or boiling water through ground coffee beans
• The sepals of a flower collectively
• 1992 Baz Luhrmann film starring Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice
• Pope from from 1963 to 1978
• English actor whose roles include Richard Sharpe in a series of TV dramas
• 1966 book by Truman Capote based on the murders of Herbert Clutter and his family
• Member of a people of S central Russia that speak a Circassian language
• What the abbreviation UHT stands for on milk, etc.
• Lucille ___, real name of actress Joan Crawford
• American cartoonist who created Woody Woodpecker
• Meringue cake topped with whipped cream and fruit, named after a Russian ballerina
• Medical term for difficult or painful urination
• Name given to the first part of Antonio Vivaldi’s set of concerti, The Contest between Harmony and Invention
• Protein that forms 40% of bone’s matter
• Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington published in 1921
• Aromatic shrub that is the traditional flower of remembrance
• The bird Bubo bubo, that has brownish speckled plumage and large ear tufts
• 1897 novel by Bram Stoker
• The White Swan in the ballet Swan Lake
• Former British coin worth two shillings in pre-decimal money
• Any elementary particle capable of taking part in a strong nuclear interaction
• The capital of Belarus
• Ransom Eli ___, American motoring pioneer who built his first gasoline-powered car in 1896