Jumbo General January 27, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTION What connects 14 Across, 27 Across and 52 Across? Connection from #760 Papillon, Teal and Ben Nevis are Grand National winners

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Crossword GK Jumbo 761 by Eimi posted on Saturday, January 27, 2024

Across Clues

• Washington Post journalist who, with Carl Bernstein, did much of the original reporting on the Watergate scandal
• American singer and actress best known for her hits C’est Si Bon and Santa Baby
• Israeli singer who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Diva
• Surname of the brothers in the band Sparks
• Children’s author whose books include Madame Doubtfire and Goggle-Eyes
• Another name for the Furies or the Erinyes in Greek mythology
• American novelist whose books include Exodus and Trinity
• The primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara
• Olympic event created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to simulate the experience of a 19th-century cavalry soldier
• The capital of Colombia
• A poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes, with the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain
• South African actor and comedian who made his name as Tony Hancock’s co-star in Hancock’s Half Hour
• American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement
• The capital of Malaysia
• 1967 film starring Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares and Bill Bixby
• Rod-shaped bacteria
• A pedantic clergyman obsessed with finishing his scholarly research in George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch
• The only member of the genus Inachis
• See 48 Down
• See 38
• Former Ranger and Scotland goalkeeper who also represented Scotland at cricket
• 1999 novel by Benjamin Zephaniah about a boy disfigured in a car crash
• See 16
• Russian figure skater who was 1988 and 1994 Olympic Pairs champion with Sergei Grinkov
• Member of The Mamas & the Papas who died in 1974
• American singer and actor whose wives included Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens

Down Clues

• Nigerian city that is capital of Oyo state
• Alabama’s only port
• The most sacred place of worship in an ancient temple from which the laity was prohibited
• London station opened on 10 January 1863 as the terminus of the original Metropolitan Railway
• Norwegian composer who wrote incidental music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt
• US actress whose early films include Blame It on Rio, St Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night …
• See 41
• Well-known Stanley Holloway monologue written by Marriott Edgar
• Spanish football team that moved to the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in 2017
• Another name for sesame
• The name of Cambodia from 1976 to 1989
• Another word for hara-kiri
• Aquatic salamander of the North American genus Ambystoma
• See 6
• The insect Xestobium rufovillosum that produces a rapid tapping sound with its head
• Prosper ___, French author best known for his short novel Carmen, on which Bizet’s opera was based
• The Mediterranean plant Tragopogon porrifolius, also called oyster plant or vegetable oyster
• Brazilian-born footballer who made his debut for Croatia in 2004
• First name of the child witch in the 1960s US sitcom Bewitched
• Song with English lyrics by Paul Anka based on the French song Comme d’habitude
• Drink consisting of orange juice and vodka
• A Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea and founded the Hasmonean dynasty
• The most senior regiment of the British Army
• A family of venomous snakes that have hollow, fixed fangs through which they inject venom
• American statesman, scientist and author who invented the lightning conductor
• The largest of the Dodecanese islands
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• First film of the “Paul Morrissey Trilogy” produced by Andy Warhol
• The first woman to be named one of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack’s Cricketers of the Year
• William ___, York-born English painter best known for his nudes