Jumbo General January 06, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 18 Across, 39 Across and 43 Across? Connection from #757 The Proclaimers, Spandau Ballet and Crowded House each contained two brothers

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Crossword GK Jumbo 758 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 06, 2024

Across Clues

• Royal Navy captain who died in Hawaii during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779
• Musical time in which there are four beats in each bar
• J R R Tolkien’s third forename
• Hill near the village of Collace in Perthshire mentioned in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
• Members of the senior branch of the Guides
• Queen consort of France 1137–1152 and queen consort of England 1154–1189
• A salmon up to two years of age
• Comic actor nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy
• Stage name of American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician Richard Melville Hall
• Stately home in North Yorkshire familiar to TV and movie audiences as the fictional Brideshead in adaptations of Brideshead Revisited
• Any of a number of very small extremely dense stars first discovered in 1967
• Surname of the Duke of Westminster
• Tree of the genus Diospyros with hard dark wood
• City that is capital of the Thessaly periphery of Greece
• 1988 Stephen Frears film based on Christopher Hampton’s theatrical adaptation of a novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• See 39
• Single by Ashford & Simpson that reached number three in the UK Singles Chart in 1985
• American horror TV series based on the book series of the same name by L J Smith
• West Indian batsman in the 1960s who ended his Test career in style with an innings of 258 at Christchurch
• The legal capital of Bolivia
• Song by Hear’Say that reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart
• See 23
• Poland’s principal seaport on the Baltic coast
• The alliance of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Japan, established in 1936
• Nicholas ___, British composer of the opera Sophie’s Choice
• A bar or shaft on which a wheel revolves
• Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892
• See 20
• The divine wife of Varaha, an Avatar of Vishnu, in Hindu mythology
• 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott
• One of the major Iranian Gnostic religions, originating in Sassanid Persia, that thrived between the third and seventh centuries
• French footballer whose Premier League clubs included Fulham, Manchester United, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur

Down Clues

• 2005 war film based on US Marine Anthony Swofford’s 2003 Gulf War memoir of the same name
• American tennis player who was the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments during the same calendar year
• 1976 Mel Brooks film whose only audible line is spoken by Marcel Marceau
• George Michael’s third studio album, released in 1996
• 70s American TV series that starred David Carradine as Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine
• The Sunday preceding Ash Wednesday
• A slow musical movement such as the famous one from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony featured in Luchino Visconti’s film Death in Venice
• East Sussex town at the confluence of the Rother, Tillingham and Brede rivers
• Umbelliferous plant, Pastinaca sativa, cultivated for its long whitish root
• Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls
• The Japanese decorative art of flower arrangement
• The Italian verb “to be”
• Tex ___, American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director whose creations include Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny
• Former British coin worth two shillings in pre-decimal money
• English international goalkeeper who came out of retirement to help Wrexham secure promotion from the National League
• Commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera considered the world’s capital of perfume
• London-based record label launched in 1983 by Andy MacDonald and Lesley Symons
• Name given to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a
• Narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy
• Anton ___, Russian composer whose works include Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
• Art movement that took its name from the title of an 1872 Claude Monet work
• See 10
• Antonín ___, Czech composer best known for his Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, From the New World
• 1983 album by June Tabor
• 1972 musical, with music by Jule Styne, based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot
• Indian city in the state of Uttar Pradesh known for producing mint oil
• Heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with linseed oil
• Grazia ___, Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926
• ___ Judd, American country music singer born Christina Claire Ciminell in 1964
• A Muslim form of salutation consisting of a deep bow with the right palm on the forehead
• Village in Angus, Scotland, originally called Slateford
• One of Job’s friends, descended from Nahor, in the Book of Job
• A large neck ring usually made from strands of metal twisted together
• Large nonvenomous snake that kills its prey by constriction