Jumbo General February 17, 2024 Answers

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Description: SPOT THE CONNECTIONWhat connects 1 Across, 18 Across and 39 Across? Connection from #763 Ernie Els, Sonny Rollins and Ted Nugent have the first name Theodore

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Crossword GK Jumbo 764 by Eimi posted on Saturday, February 17, 2024

Across Clues

• Short play by Harold Pinter premièred by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1969, directed by Peter Hall
• See 16
• Something believed in certain cultures to be the embodiment of a spirit or magical powers
• The Hebrew word for life and a prominent Jewish symbol
• British children’s TV series presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene
• 2000 Coen Brothers film loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey
• The only person to have won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National as both jockey and trainer
• Engelbert Humperdinck single that spent five weeks at number one in the UK in 1967
• Indian cottage cheese
• The local representative of the king in a shire until the early 11th century
• Actor whose TV roles include Simon Templar in The Saint and Lord Brett Sinclair in The Persuaders!
• American action figure launched in the UK as Action Man in 1966
• Another name for the flowering plant Campanula carpatica, native to the Carpathian Mountains
• English novelist best known for Black Beauty
• American film producer, screenwriter and director who created Star Wars and Indiana Jones
• See 37
• A mammal of the family Ursidae
• Boxer originally called Cassius Clay
• Home ground of Macclesfield Town FC
• Edith Wharton novel which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize
• See 16
• Moroccan runner who won the 5000m at the 1984 Olympics
• In the Old Testament, the eldest son of Aaron
• Airline of the United Arab Emirates and sponsors of Manchester City FC
• Welsh footballer who scored Great Britain’s first goal at an Olympic Games since 1960 in a 1–1 draw with Senegal in 2012
• The only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship
• The second album by The The, released in 1986
• Another name for a sponsor at a christening
• Greek hero, son of King Telamon, considered the second greatest warrior after Achilles
• See 28
• Town in County Durham noted for steel-making from 1840 to 1980
• In J R R Tolkien’s works, a new breed of orc, no longer afraid of daylight, that emerged in the Third Age

Down Clues

• In Greek mythology, the fluid which flows in the veins of the gods
• Former Manchester City striker who captains the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team
• The capital of Sardinia
• Welsh actor who played Lord John Marbury in The West Wing
• Plant that is the national emblem of Scotland
• Plant of the genus Buphthalmum with daisy-like flower heads
• E M ___, author whose novels include Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End
• Any of various brightly coloured tropical freshwater fishes of the genus Hemigrammus and related genera
• The Eurasian rose, Rosa rubiginosa, also called eglantine
• French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris
• The second largest city in the United States
• A 1986 sci-fi film directed by James Cameron
• In the Old Testament, the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau
• An animal such as Didelphis marsupialis of North, Central and South America
• The largest city and former administrative capital of Sri Lanka
• The Indo-European language of modern Iran
• Peter ___, French philosopher and theologian who loved Heloise
• Evergreen shrub of the genus Ulex, also called furze and whin
• In the Old Testament, the valley below Jerusalem where children were sacrificed
• The largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, shared by Croatia, Slovenia and Italy
• Lerner and Loewe musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion
• Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War who led the victories at Abydos and Cyzicus
• English author whose novels include The Rainbow
• Guyana-born musician whose 1982 single I Don’t Wanna Dance spent three weeks at number one in the UK chart
• Home ground of Yeovil Town FC
• An easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area, especially in the late summer
• Electronic dance music duo consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll
• Drownings during the Reign of Terror at Nantes
• The ancient Greek goddess of peace
• Horse that gave trainer “17 Across” his fourth and final Grand National victory in 1966
• A domesticated South American cud-chewing mammal used as a beast of burden