Jumbo General January 20, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 20 Across, 35 Across and 44 Across? Connection from #759 Paul McCartney, L L Cool J and Iggy Pop have James as a first name

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Crossword GK Jumbo 760 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 20, 2024

Across Clues

• American screenwriter, director and actor whose films include Manhattan
• Men’s singles champion at Wimbledon in 1975
• Series of cars manufactured by Honda since 1972
• The last line of this classic comedy series was “I’m afraid it’s started to rain again”
• The study of handwriting, especially to analyse the writer’s character
• See 19
• American guitarist and singer-songwriter whose band’s hits include Fly Like An Eagle and Take the Money and Run
• 1969 memoir by Henri Charrière about his imprisonment at a penal colony in French Guiana
• Song written by George M Cohan for his 1904 musical Little Johnny Jones
• English poet, short story writer and novelist best known for his poem The Listeners
• Max ___, German film director whose works include La Ronde and Lola Montes
• See 12
• King of Persia who founded the Persian empire
• Small duck such as Anas crecca
• A watch chain with a bar at one end for attaching to a buttonhole
• Levy on the profits of a company or other incorporated body
• Common rendering of the wounded Mercutio’s curse on the Montague and Capulet families in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
• The highest mountain in Great Britain
• Léo Delibes opera in three acts to a libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille
• The hard white substance that covers the crown of each tooth
• Crustacean with a small triangular body and very long legs
• 1928 play by George Bernard Shaw subtitled A Political Extravaganza
• A tree of the genus Betula
• In Greek mythology, a gorgon beheaded by Perseus
• The body of all qualified voters

Down Clues

• In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet who was swallowed by a great fish
• The capital of South Australia
• The only golfer in the 20th century to win the Open in three different decades
• The Muse of history
• Friedrich ___, German political philosopher who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto
• American golfer who won seven majors, including the 1946 Open
• Insect of the family Lucanidae, the males of which have large branched mandibles
• Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides north-east of Islay
• Rabbi, born in Babylonia, who was president of the Sanhedrin and the first to formulate principles of biblical interpretation
• In cricket, an instance of getting out to one’s first ball in both innings of a match
• 1923 collection of poetry by Khalil Gibran
• The small graceful animal Capreolus capreolus
• Spanish painter whose works include Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guernica
• Sultanate whose capital in Muscat
• See 20
• Surname of the second and sixth presidents of the United States
• District of Hackney whose name is thought to have derived from Deorlaf’s tun
• Well-known seduction poem by John Donne
• In the book of Genesis, the second son of Jacob and Zilpah
• In Greek mythology, a statue of a maiden brought to life by Aphrodite in response to the prayers of the sculptor Pygmalion
• Marxist revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the Cuban Revolution
• 1989 film telling the story of a regiment of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War
• English synthpop duo comprising songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell
• French for “three”
• Colour with the chemical formula CoAl2O4
• A supposed descendant of the son of Abraham and Hagar
• Fencing sword similar to the foil but with a larger guard and a heavier blade
• Pop group whose members include Gary Barlow and Mark Owen
• 1980 Robert Zemeckis film starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden
• Album by Badfinger on which the song Without You first appeared
• Cathedral city in Devon
• The Muse of love poetry
• See 10
• Large fast-running flightless bird inhabiting the open plains of South America
• Town on the Isle of Man that is home to the island’s only cathedral